Medium “Python” tag statistics
How busy the Python tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is high, and the tag is mixed for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 7.3 days
Busier than 64% of 73 tracked tags
35% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 109 stories a day, Python is busier than 64% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (46,229 followers per daily story) is higher than 56% of tags — more readers per story than average.
67% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 35% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 41% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 8.5 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Python stories
| Publication | Followers | Python stories (last 7.3d) |
|---|---|---|
| Python in Plain English | 100K | 80 |
| Models to Systems | 9 | 26 |
| Level Up Coding | 367K | 14 |
| Towards AI | 151K | 10 |
| Stackademic | 88K | 9 |
| CodeToDeploy | 6.8K | 9 |
| Python to Intelligence | 4 | 8 |
| Engineering Under Pressure | 668 | 7 |
| Python GIS Workflows | 8 | 7 |
| BecomeBetter.Dev | 6 | 6 |
Top Python stories right now
- D3Blocks: The Sweet Spot for Data Scientists. Interactive Charts Without Deployment Friction.
- Making a Nuclear Experiment with Python, Fan, and a Sock
- I Track My Time The Way I Track My Budget
- I had a free Qwen3.8-27B agent copy 10 web pages. It spent 64% of its time measuring pixels
- Polymarket’s Insiders: I Tracked the Wallets That Never Seem to Lose
- 6 Python Libraries With Surprisingly Powerful Features
- 12 Python Libraries That Fix Problems You Keep Solving by Hand
- 10 Python Libraries That Make Hard Problems Feel Easy
- I Split One Agent Into Three. The Plan Never Reached the Executor.
- The Standard Library Was Enough, and I Almost Missed It
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Python tag on Medium?
- About 109 per day (765 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 7.3-day window before our last scan. The tag has 261,068 stories in total.
- Is the Python tag competitive?
- Competition is high: it is busier than 64% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 46,229 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Python?
- 35% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is mixed for newcomers. 67% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.