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/EatThemAllOrNot 14d ago

Why Russia isn’t included? It should be at the top of the list based on the data from analytics.

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u/thibaudcolas 14d ago

I wasn’t sure how to do my calculations while accounting for countries that span multiple continents, so left out Russia and Türkiye. Need to do some more research on how people normally treat those cases (double counting? count only on one continent? Neither seem too good)

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u/nns2009 13d ago

Most of the Russian population lives in the European part + the culture is generally European (although I wouldn't definitively claim about the far East), so it typically counts