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 3^rd most popular software in Simple English Wikipedia and the 4^th most popular programming language in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Python (programming language)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 56.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 36 references and 8 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1290^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 576^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 3^rd most popular in software in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 4^th most popular in programming languages in Simple 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:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2065^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 2775^th most editable in Simple 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 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2775^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 110 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (576^th place) and edited by 8030 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (522^nd place).

Python is on the 3^rd place in local ranking of software in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 5^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

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

The article is cited 87 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 24384 times in all languages (6930^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #93 in April 2021
• Global: #92 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #557 in July 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.

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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