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Is there any reasonable measurement of Python 3 market share? I guess it's still <25%.

BuckRogers 10y ago
It's tough to know but I keep an eye on this stuff. You can count on a solid ~10% marketshare for Python3. Going too far beyond that without updated numbers would be overly generous. Roughly 12% of PyPi has been ported to Python3[0] and about 10% of pip downloads are Python3[1]. [0]https://youtu.be/G-uKNd5TSBw?t=1m14s https://youtu.be/G-uKNd5TSBw?t=1m14s [1]https://twitter.com/dstufft/status/687663858408919042 https://twitter.com/dstufft/status/687663858408919042
- kstrauser 10y ago
  More importantly (to me) is that Py3 uploads have now exceeded Py2, according to https://twitter.com/chupapuma/status/730088983586181120 https://twitter.com/chupapuma/status/730088983586181120
  - BuckRogers 10y ago
    I saw that one too but Py3 hasn't actually intersected with Py2 yet. Uploads will level off. It doesn't have relevance on a marketshare question, it would be misleading. It does show some momentum. Most everything you would want already exists on Python2. A lot of those uploads are forks or new projects that already have solutions in 2. I have no problem with Python3 and glad to see people putting their money where their mouth is and 'get to porting'. Rather than blogs/complaining about the userbase/backroom deals and conspiracies to kill Python2.
theseatoms 10y ago
What do you mean by "market" in this context? Percentage of firms using either? Or do you just mean SLOC?
karim 10y ago
No there isn't. People used to be able to extrapolate it from the pypi downloads stats (like this: https://alexgaynor.net/2014/jan/03/pypi-download-statistics/ https://alexgaynor.net/2014/jan/03/pypi-download-statistics/), but sadly it's not possible anymore.
- hacst 10y ago
  There is https://caremad.io/2015/04/a-year-of-pypi-downloads/ https://caremad.io/2015/04/a-year-of-pypi-downloads/ which is also based on PyPI downloads and is more recent.
  - karim 10y ago
    Oh, thanks! It's kind of crazy to see Python 3.x usage stuck around 7%, though.
    - kstrauser 10y ago
      Note: that's from a year ago.

It's tough to know but I keep an eye on this stuff. You can count on a solid ~10% marketshare for Python3. Going too far beyond that without updated numbers would be overly generous. Roughly 12% of PyPi has been ported to Python3[0] and about 10% of pip downloads are Python3[1]. [0]https://youtu.be/G-uKNd5TSBw?t=1m14s https://youtu.be/G-uKNd5TSBw?t=1m14s [1]https://twitter.com/dstufft/status/687663858408919042 https://twitter.com/dstufft/status/687663858408919042

kstrauser 10y ago
More importantly (to me) is that Py3 uploads have now exceeded Py2, according to https://twitter.com/chupapuma/status/730088983586181120 https://twitter.com/chupapuma/status/730088983586181120
- BuckRogers 10y ago
  I saw that one too but Py3 hasn't actually intersected with Py2 yet. Uploads will level off. It doesn't have relevance on a marketshare question, it would be misleading. It does show some momentum. Most everything you would want already exists on Python2. A lot of those uploads are forks or new projects that already have solutions in 2. I have no problem with Python3 and glad to see people putting their money where their mouth is and 'get to porting'. Rather than blogs/complaining about the userbase/backroom deals and conspiracies to kill Python2.

theseatoms 10y ago

What do you mean by "market" in this context? Percentage of firms using either? Or do you just mean SLOC?

karim 10y ago

No there isn't. People used to be able to extrapolate it from the pypi downloads stats (like this: https://alexgaynor.net/2014/jan/03/pypi-download-statistics/ https://alexgaynor.net/2014/jan/03/pypi-download-statistics/), but sadly it's not possible anymore.

hacst 10y ago
There is https://caremad.io/2015/04/a-year-of-pypi-downloads/ https://caremad.io/2015/04/a-year-of-pypi-downloads/ which is also based on PyPI downloads and is more recent.
- karim 10y ago
  Oh, thanks! It's kind of crazy to see Python 3.x usage stuck around 7%, though.
  - kstrauser 10y ago
    Note: that's from a year ago.