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.
Additional notes
- Mac OS X includes Python - Jaguar used Python 2.2.0, Panther uses Python 2.3.0
RedHat and Debian Linux distributions include Python and RedHat uses Python extensively and some Python projects are also included with the distributions.
- Due to bundling and the use of mirror sites we can't collect meaningful download totals for Linux users for many projects. In those cases, maybe it is better to use the size of the mailing list as a popularity gauge?
Most Popular Python Projects
downloads: 1.3-1.5 million/month (most downloads are just end-users)
- related Python projects: ABC, BT++, G3, burst!
ABC (Yet Another Bittorrent Client)
downloads: 300K/month
related Python projects: BitTorrent, wxPython
downloads: 125K/month
related Python projects: BitTorrent, wxPython
downloads: 10K/month
related Python projects: BitTorrent, wxPython
downloads: 30-50K/month (most downloads are just end-users, aka Outlook plugin)
downloads: 2-3K/month
large installed base, including SourceForge mailing lists
downloads: 20-30K/month
downloads: 20K/month
- mailing list subscribers: 900+
related Python projects: BoaConstructor, WxGlade, SPE, PythonCard
- book coming out soon
downloads: 3K/month
- related Python projects: wxPython
downloads: http://pythonide.stani.be
- related Python projects: wxPython
downloads: 13-15K/month
downloads: 10-14K/month
- related Python projects: Zope, Archetypes, Collective
- book coming out this summer
- related Python projects: Plone
- 10 books
- downloads 9-15K/month (guesstimate)
- mailing list subscribers: 550+
- mailing list subscribers: 500+
downloads: 8K/month
- mailing list subscribers: 350+ for scons-users, 140+ for scons-dev
MoinMoin Wiki Engine
downloads: 6K/month
used by many other projects for collaboration and documentation (even right here
)
downloads: 6K/month
- downloads: 5K/month
- mailing list subscribers: 270+
- 2 books
MySQL for Python
downloads: 4-5K/month
downloads: 6-7K/month
- mailing list subscribers: 53 + 74 (devel + announce)
downloads: 3-4K/month
- Combined with Inno Setup users can package and distribute Python applications as standalones on Windows.
- downloads: 3-4K/month
- mailing list subscribers: 570+ for twisted-python, 150+ for twisted-web
downloads: 3K/month
- 2 books
- downloads: 2K/month
- mailing list subscribers: 500+
- downloads: 2-3K/month
- mailing lists subscribers: 400+
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.
- Python-2.3.3.exe: 60K in March 2004
- Python-2.3.3.tgz and Python-2.3.3.tar.bz2: 29K in March 2004
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