[Python-Dev] Download Counts (was: Language Summit notes)

[Brian Curtin]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> I don't think we have recent download numbers since the Website
> overhaul (do we?), but Python 3 isn't an "experimental concept
> language" anymore (it hasn't been since 3.3 or 3.2, I'd say).

Using the old logs, which are still good through 2013, I've found the following:

The first year of a release series (month of final release month + 12mos):
2.6.x - 10.3 Million
2.7.x - 10.26M
3.2.x - 5.84M
3.3.x - 13.1M

2013 downloads (out of 34.79M across all possible versions):
2.6.x - 1.9M
2.7.x - 14.3M
3.2.x - 1.03M
3.3.x - 13.85M

3.3 had a big first year of availability (Oct '12-'13), and throughout
2013 it represented 48% of those versions listed above.