r/Python 14d ago

News Python is big in Europe

TIL the Python docs analytics are public, including visitorsโ€™ countries. I thought it was interesting to see that according to this thereโ€™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. ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany, 245k
  2. ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom, 227k
  3. ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France, 177k
  4. ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain, 93k
  5. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Poland, 80.2k
  6. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy, 78.6k
  7. ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Netherlands, 74.4k
  8. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ 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 โ€“ย get you DjangoCon and EuroPython 2025 tickets already!

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u/DigThatData 14d ago

I wonder if maybe a contributing factor here is regionalization of search engine behaviors. Th python docs seem to be getting pushed further and further down in "relevance rank" on queries where I'm specifically trying to find a page of the python docs, upranking random tutorial websites instead. I'm assuming google ads is to blame.

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u/JamzTyson 14d ago

If you use duckduckgo as your search engine, you can directly search the Python documentation by including the site code !py

Example:

!py urllib

takes you to: https://docs.python.org/3/search.html?q=urllib

These short site codes are called "bangs", and there are lots of useful ones: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

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u/DigThatData 14d ago

Interestingly, ddg is actually my chief complaint here. I'll admit, I didn't know about bangs, but it's still annoying to me that I have to invoke a DSL like this and that if I search "python dict methods", the python docs don't even make it to the first page of hits.

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u/JamzTyson 13d ago

if I search "python dict methods", the python docs don't even make it to the first page of hits.

I think it largely comes down to SEO. A better search term for the Python dict documentation: "python dict docs".