Best Medium publications for Python writers
28 publications that publish Python stories. Publications marked open to new writers regularly publish people with fewer than 100 followers — the best place to submit your first stories.
Updated Oct 20, 2026
Where new Python writers get published
| # | Publication | Followers | Stories (14d) | Median claps | By small writers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Python in Plain English open to new writers | 102 | 70 | 32% | |
| 2 | Google Cloud - Community open to new writers | 9 | 43 | 67% | |
| 3 | Towards Data Engineering open to new writers | 11 | 72 | 36% | |
| 4 | Insight Avenue open to new writers | 3 | 0 | 100% | |
| 5 | Models to Systems open to new writers | 41 | 0 | 100% | |
| 6 | Python GIS Workflows open to new writers | 7 | 0 | 100% |
All Python publications
| # | Publication | Followers | Stories (14d) | Median claps | By small writers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Python in Plain English open to new writers | 102 | 70 | 32% | |
| 2 | Google Cloud - Community open to new writers | 9 | 43 | 67% | |
| 3 | Towards Data Engineering open to new writers | 11 | 72 | 36% | |
| 4 | Insight Avenue open to new writers | 3 | 0 | 100% | |
| 5 | Models to Systems open to new writers | 41 | 0 | 100% | |
| 6 | Python GIS Workflows open to new writers | 7 | 0 | 100% | |
| 7 | 16 | 50 | 19% | ||
| 8 | 6 | 76 | 0% | ||
| 9 | DevOps.dev | 2 | 0 | 100% | |
| 10 | 17 | 7 | 0% | ||
| 11 | 3 | 0 | 67% | ||
| 12 | Snowflake Builders Blog: Data Engineers, App Developers, AI, & Data Science | 2 | 30 | 100% | |
| 13 | Data Hackers | 2 | 27 | 0% | |
| 14 | 8 | 35 | 13% | ||
| 15 | 42 | 100 | 19% | ||
| 16 | Pythonic AF | 2 | 0 | 50% | |
| 17 | Tierra Insights | 2 | 64 | 0% | |
| 18 | 7 | 95 | 0% | ||
| 19 | AI-ML Interview Playbook | 2 | 51 | 0% | |
| 20 | 16 | 0 | 0% | ||
| 21 | Code with Python | 2 | 30 | 0% | |
| 22 | 100 days of python | 2 | 0 | 0% | |
| 23 | Backend Engineers Club | 2 | 135 | 0% | |
| 24 | Codexa | 2 | 135 | 50% | |
| 25 | BecomeBetter.Dev | 6 | 53 | 0% | |
| 26 | Python to Intelligence | 8 | 0 | 0% | |
| 27 | Checked Against the Data | 2 | 0 | 100% | |
| 28 | Daily AI Pulse | 2 | 79 | 0% |
How to choose a publication
Bigger is not always better. A publication with 100K followers can bury your story among dozens of daily posts, while a smaller, active publication that features new writers often brings more reads per story. Look at three numbers above: followers (potential reach), median claps (how much readers actually engage) and the share of small writers (your chances of being accepted).
For context, Python sees about 109 new stories a day and 59% of them get no claps at all. Getting into a publication is one of the few reliable ways out of that pile. See the full Python tag statistics.