[Python-Dev] readline.clear_history()

[Jack Jansen]

On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 01:14 AM, Steve Holden wrote:
>> And, come Panther, there are going to be rather a lot of Python 2.3
>> installs out there.
>>
> Just as a matter of interest, do you have any idea how many Mac OSX
> licensees there are?

Apple sells about 3 million machines per year (taking their Q3-02 and  
Q3-03
figures and interpolating from that:-) and since last year these boot  
into OSX
by default (and, since the last couple of months they only boot into  
OSX).

Adding the conversion factor from older machines I come to about 5  
million.
And, surprise, that's also what some other people came up with using
a different method:  
<http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/archive/macosx-talk/2003-August/ 
015570.html>.

But we're really interested in how many people will be running Panther,
and I think that number is going to be lower. Very few people stuck with
10.1, basically only people whose machines wouldn't run 10.2 (pre-G3  
processors),
because 10.2 was really *way* ahead of 10.1. The 10.2->10.3 difference  
is
probably less (to the non-Pythonic general community:-), so how about
1 million 10.3 users by the end of the year, 3-4 million by mid-2004?

Any correspondence of these number with reality is pure chance,  
though:-)
--
Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma  
Goldman