"More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Terry Reedy <tjreedy <at> udel.edu> writes:
>>
>> On 1/6/2014 11:29 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>>
>> > People don't use? According to available figures, there are more
> downloads of
>> > Python 3 than downloads of Python 2 (Windows installers, mostly):
>> > http://www.python.org/webstats/
>>
>> While I would like the claim to be true, I do not see 2 versus 3
>> downloads on that page. Did you mean another link?
>
> Just click on a recent month, scroll down to the "Total URLs By kB"
> table, and compute the sum of the largest numbers for each Python
> version.

Here's what I see there (expanding on what I said in the other post,
which was based on one table further up, URLs by hit count) for
December:

3.3.3: 1214571
- amd64 627672
- win32 586899
2.7.6: 1049096
- win32 607972
- amd64 441124

The next highest number is 167K downloads, so I'm going to ignore
their figures as they won't make more than 15% difference in these
stats. This is 2263667 total downloads of the current versions of
Python, 46% 2.7.6 and 54% 3.3.3. That's not incredibly significant
statistically, but certainly it disproves the notion that 3.x isn't
used at all.

ChrisA