usage stats¶
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“A page for ideas on gathering statistics about how Python is used.”
The motivation is to help during discussions about Python where a consensus isn’t available. Anecdotes usually fall short in that case.
Ideally, we’d be able to break data down into various groupings, and consider both totals and percentages.
Data Groupings¶
new development vs. stable code-bases
categories (web, scripts, “big data”, computation, etc.)
“bare metal” vs. on top of some framework
regional usage
Solutions for Gathering Usage Statistics¶
data from PyPI (a.k.a. the cheeseshop)
search results (incl. google, code search sites)
Usage Categories¶
An unsubstantiated of how Python is used:
Heavy¶
web applications
scripting and tooling
high-performance computation
testing (non-Python/embedded/whatever code)
Medium¶
Light¶
games
Other thoughts¶
Data from PyPI or google will likely not include closed-source usage.
This topic is the subject of threads on python-list: