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Comment by TorKlingberg | Hacker News Reader

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

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/), but sadly it's not possible anymore.

There is https://caremad.io/2015/04/a-year-of-pypi-downloads/ which is also based on PyPI downloads and is more recent.

Oh, thanks! It's kind of crazy to see Python 3.x usage stuck around 7%, though.

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

[1]https://twitter.com/dstufft/status/687663858408919042

More importantly (to me) is that Py3 uploads have now exceeded Py2, according to https://twitter.com/chupapuma/status/730088983586181120

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.

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

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