Python (programming language)

Quality:

Python - general-purpose programming language. This software is the 5^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 4^th most popular software in English Wikipedia and the 3^rd most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “Python (programming language)” in English Wikipedia has 82.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 246 references and 29 sections.

This article has the best quality in Persian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1628^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 565^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 4^th most popular in software in English Wikipedia.

The 3^rd most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1287^th most popular in all topics.

The 522^nd most popular in AI.

The 5^th most popular in software.

The 4^th most popular in programming languages.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3468^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 1246^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3593^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2117^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Python (programming language)” was edited by 20 authors in English Wikipedia (1246^th place) and written by 44 authors in all languages (2117^th place).

Since the creation of article “Python (programming language)”, its content was written by 2300 registered users of English Wikipedia (565^th place) and edited by 8030 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (522^nd place).

Python is on the 4^th place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 5^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

Python is on the 3^rd place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 4^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 3950 times in English Wikipedia (6998^th place) and cited 24384 times in all languages (6930^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #263 in November 2002
• Global: #92 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #653 in October 2021
• Global: #440 in October 2021

There are 54 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Persian (fa) پایتون (زبان برنامه‌نویسی)		98.1818
2	German (de) Python (Programmiersprache)		96
3	Arabic (ar) بايثون (لغة برمجة)		92.1739
4	Chinese (zh) Python		91.3108
5	Russian (ru) Python		89.1538
6	Hungarian (hu) Python (programozási nyelv)		86.8571
7	Catalan (ca) Python		86.1538
8	French (fr) Python (langage)		85.5289
9	English (en) Python (programming language)		82.8968
10	Vietnamese (vi) Python (ngôn ngữ lập trình)		82.269

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Python (programming language)		36 880 603
2	Russian (ru) Python		9 573 592
3	Spanish (es) Python		5 284 575
4	German (de) Python (Programmiersprache)		4 988 286
5	Japanese (ja) Python		4 602 631
6	Chinese (zh) Python		3 851 687
7	French (fr) Python (langage)		3 614 645
8	Portuguese (pt) Python		2 686 024
9	Polish (pl) Python		1 620 027
10	Italian (it) Python		1 595 181

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Python (programming language)		117 621
2	Russian (ru) Python		10 765
3	German (de) Python (Programmiersprache)		9 531
4	Japanese (ja) Python		8 475
5	Spanish (es) Python		8 452
6	French (fr) Python (langage)		7 211
7	Chinese (zh) Python		6 861
8	Persian (fa) پایتون (زبان برنامه‌نویسی)		3 840
9	Portuguese (pt) Python		3 384
10	Italian (it) Python		2 421

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Python (programming language)		2 300
2	German (de) Python (Programmiersprache)		607
3	French (fr) Python (langage)		533
4	Russian (ru) Python		508
5	Spanish (es) Python		332
6	Chinese (zh) Python		272
7	Italian (it) Python		244
8	Japanese (ja) Python		218
9	Persian (fa) پایتون (زبان برنامه‌نویسی)		205
10	Polish (pl) Python		186

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Python (programming language)		20
2	Polish (pl) Python		3
3	Basque (eu) Python (informatika)		2
4	Japanese (ja) Python		2
5	Korean (ko) 파이썬		2
6	Arabic (ar) بايثون (لغة برمجة)		1
7	Bulgarian (bg) Python		1
8	Catalan (ca) Python		1
9	Esperanto (eo) Python (programlingvo)		1
10	Spanish (es) Python		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information