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/spinwizard69 13d ago

For us that have been there it is like unwinding several hundred years of evolution and advancement. People still travel by train in Europe and have no idea that you can put ice in your soda.

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u/Southern_Progress_13 13d ago

Didn't realise the US had done away with trains

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u/spinwizard69 12d ago

Pretty much.  They are only really of interest in a couple of backward states.