A Year of PyPI Downloads

BetaMechazawa · on April 21, 2015

Great to see that Python3 support for frameworks such as Flask and Django are catching on. I personally feel that the big frameworks should push more when it comes to the adaption of Python3. The only reason I ever still use Python2 is because of frameworks such as Twisted[1] not supporting Python3 yet.

[1]: https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Plan/Python3

explosion · on April 21, 2015

I wish there was a way to tell which pip installs were done by humans vs. by automated tools. It would be interesting to track what people are doing by hand vs. what machines are doing. I suppose that may be impossible to implement, though.

These graphs are very insightful. Thanks for offering us some visibility into the Python package download picture.

BetaMechazawa · on April 21, 2015

What would you classify as "by hand" and "automated tools"? Because commands like pip install -r {file} could be seen as both in my eyes.

explosion · on April 21, 2015

By hand meaning "pip install -r {file}" or more generally pip with any arguments typed directly at the command line.

Automated meaning pip with any arguments run by another script.