[Python-Dev] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all other files?!

[Thomas Heller]

Guido van Rossum schrieb:
> I looked through the python.org web stats (as I usually do when
> preparing for a keynote) and discovered that
> /ftp/python/2.5/python-2.5.msi is by far the top download -- 271,971
> hits, more than 5x the next one, /ftp/python/2.5/Python-2.5.tgz
> (47,898 hits). Are these numbers real? (The byte counts suggest they
> are.)

You probably have to add the downloads for /ftp/python/2.5/Python-2.5.tar.bz2
(31,492 hits) to the last number.

Also interesting are the hits for 64-bit windows Pythons:

/ftp/python/2.5/python-2.5.amd64.msi (23192 hits)
/ftp/python/2.5/python-2.5.ia64.msi (22523 hits)

> What could cause this dramatic popularity of Python on Windows?

Have the ratios changed against past figures (too lazy to look them up now)?

> Does some vendor have an auto-install hook that installs Python
> whenever someone opens up their new computer? Or have we just hit the
> jackpot?
> 

Thomas