[python-advocacy] how many python users are there?

[Aahz]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008, Laura Creighton wrote:
>
> I need a figure for a report.  Anybody got anything that is recent 
> and quotable?  Python users europe-wide and world-wide are most useful,
> but if you happen to have a very accurate one for some place else,
> I can use that too.

When Stef and I wrote our proposal for _Python for Dummies_, we used
this as our source for about 700K Python programmers:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-December/050412.html

Given recent growth trends, I think one million users is a reasonable
number.  I can't find any more-recent authoritative figures with a quick
Google.
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