Introduction

The list is ordered with a preference to number of downloads per month, followed by the number of subscribers to the project mailing list.

The list is under construction. Suggestion on formatting, help finding more projects and keeping data up-to-date is welcome.

In order to keep the list focused, some metrics have to be established so that every Python-related project isn't in the list. For example, a minimum of three thousand (3K) downloads per month, a few hundred subscribers to the project mailing list, or an obviously large established user base (e.g. Mailman). In addition, the list doesn't include modules or packages in the standard libraries such as Tkinter.

Download figures will vary for a project as new releases are made. Perhaps the download figures below should be an average of the last full three or four previous months? You can see detailed monthly downloads by following the links below for projects hosted on SourceForge.

The download figures were last updated in March 2004. -- KevinAltis

Additional notes

Most Popular Python Projects

BitTorrent

SpamBayes

Mailman

pywin32 (formerly Win32All)

WxPython

BitPim

Plone

Zope

PythonImagingLibrary (PIL)

PyGtk

PyQt

SCons

MoinMoin Wiki Engine

NumPy / NumArray

PyGame

MySQL for Python

GNU Solfege

Py2Exe

TwistedMatrix (Twisted)

Jython

ReportLab

Nuxeo CPS

Python downloads for comparison

These are the download figures for the latest release version of Python from python.org from the previous month. These figures do not include earlier versions of Python or downloads from mirror sites or other distributions.


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