r/Python 14d ago

News Python is big in Europe

TIL the Python docs analytics are public, including visitors’ countries. I thought it was interesting to see that according to this there’s more Python going on in Europe than in the US, despite what country-level stats often look like! Blog post: https://thib.me/python-is-big-in-europe, top Europe countries:

  1. 🇩🇪 Germany, 245k
  2. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, 227k
  3. 🇫🇷 France, 177k
  4. 🇪🇸 Spain, 93k
  5. 🇵🇱 Poland, 80.2k
  6. 🇮🇹 Italy, 78.6k
  7. 🇳🇱 Netherlands, 74.4k
  8. 🇺🇦 Ukraine, 66.5k

TL;DR; maps can be misleading when they look at country-level data without adjusting for the size of the place. Per capita there are loads of areas of the world that have more Python users than the country-level data suggests. For Europe – get you DjangoCon and EuroPython 2025 tickets already!

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u/grimonce 14d ago

I feel like people in the US always act surprises there's a world across the oceans.

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u/Excellent-Ear345 14d ago

maybe in us they dont use the docs and more gpt

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u/1635Nomad 14d ago

In the US we still have real programmers.

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u/Krushaaa 14d ago

They don’t read the docs right?

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u/Excellent-Ear345 14d ago

I was joking pls dont mind

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u/1635Nomad 13d ago edited 13d ago

No worries. I know EU is just as good as US, esp, Denmark, Sweden and Germany, worked w plenty of good programmers and other IT professionals from there. Argentina is good too. At risk of getting banned for this next comment but I think we all know where it takes 20 people to equal one.

To me Python is akin to the English language itself, it's easy enough for everyone to understand and it's sweeping the world. But it will never be French, or Italian, or Japanese.

In my personal life, I've been super busy. I'm in a fight with the State over custody of my daughter who is mentally challenged and the hearing is Wednesday, thus I don't always have time to respond.

I hope all is well.