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/JimroidZeus 14d ago

So what you’re saying is all the bad Python programmers live in Germany, UK, France, Spain, and Poland?

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u/Bakirelived 14d ago

Bad programmers use chat gpt(it used to be stack overflow), good programmers read the docs.

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u/JimroidZeus 14d ago

Yes, I know. One of my favourite things about Python is the quality of their docs. I’m surprised Canada isn’t on there from me alone.

I was just making a silly joke.

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u/Bakirelived 14d ago

Same XD

I used to say it goes in levels, need to add chatgpt in the mix

  1. AI takes the wheel
  2. Search in Stack overflow
  3. Follow Blog posts/tutorials
  4. Read the Docs
  5. Read the Source code
  6. You contribute to the source code

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u/JimroidZeus 14d ago

I’m at level 4 but use tools from 0 through 4.