Is Python dying?
Mark Lutz
lutz at rmi.net
Sun Apr 4 15:42:41 EDT 1999
Sidebar: you have to be careful with amazon's numbers,
because they tend to change too fast to be very useful.
I've seen Programming Python go from #500 to #5000 in
a day or two; Learning Python changes just as fast (in
fact, it was ranked #409 as I wrote this).
Their numbers are probably okay as a quick-and-dirty
estimate; but for a better picture, you'd have to take
an average over a long period of time, and then take
into consideration that their numbers are skewed towards
online shopper's interests. Publishers get much more
useful sales information from the big distributors.
OTOH, I wouldn't mind seeing Python in the top 100 ;-).
--Mark Lutz (http://rmi.net/~lutz)
Jeremy Hylton wrote in message
<14085.18282.936883.727575 at bitdiddle.cnri.reston.va.us>...
>This is really useless information, but I guess I along with most
>other people are fascinated by top ten lists and movie grosses and
>... Amazon.com sales ranks.
>
>Title Amazon.com Sales Rank
>Learning Python 1,570
>Programming Python 1,685
>Python : Pocket Reference 3,218
>Internet Programming With Python 8,720
>Mastering Regular Expressions 931
>Programming Perl, 2nd ed. 81
>Perl Cookbook 136
>The C Programming Language 478
>The C++ Programming Language 1,003
>Tcl and the Tk Toolkit 3,362
>
>Learning Python seems to be selling well for a book that hasn't been
>shipped. :-)
More information about the Python-list
mailing list