Number of Python Users

[Cameron Laird]

In article <8rb8an$jfl$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <echuck at mindspring.com> wrote:
>Is there any kind of estimate on the number of Python users? Or even
>related numbers, like # of downloads of 1.5.2?
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A couple of years ago, gossip circulated "half a million" as
a number which I believe originated with the O'Reilly empire.
It's a very fuzzy question, by the way--you do understand
that, right?  What's the use of the estimate?  Is it for com-
parison with a Java head-count, as diagnostic for a policy
decision about the wisdom of reliance on a "minority language"?
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