[Python-checkins] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all other files?!

[Guido van Rossum]

I looked through the python.org web stats (as I usually do when
preparing for a keynote) and discovered that
/ftp/python/2.5/python-2.5.msi is by far the top download -- 271,971
hits, more than 5x the next one, /ftp/python/2.5/Python-2.5.tgz
(47,898 hits). Are these numbers real? (The byte counts suggest they
are.) What could cause this dramatic popularity of Python on Windows?
Does some vendor have an auto-install hook that installs Python
whenever someone opens up their new computer? Or have we just hit the
jackpot?

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)