r/Python

About r/Python

In its own words:

The official Python community for Reddit! Stay up to date with the latest news, packages, and meta information relating to the Python programming language. --- If you have questions or are new to Python use r/LearnPython

The community was created on Jan 25, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 1,087 subscribers (+0.07%). Among the 20 communities on our programming list it is number 5 by size. Among the 5 communities on our python list it is the largest. It sits just behind r/IWantToLearn (#701) and ahead of r/microsoft (#703) in our ranking.

What sets r/Python apart

r/Python is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 100% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 35% across the Top 100. People mostly look and upvote here rather than comment — about 6.2 comments per post, against 13.0 for a typical large subreddit. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (07:00 UTC) sees about 9.0× as many posts as the quietest (01:00 UTC).

Subscriber growth

Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/Python went up from 1,512,368 to 1,521,803 subscribers (+9.4K, +0.62%). That is about 185 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.

Top posts on r/Python this week

This week’s highest-ranked posts, in Reddit’s own order (collected Nov 9, 2026).

1. FastAPI Cloud is now generally availableu/tiangolo · Nov 2 · text post
2. Pip 26.3 - Extended Pylock Support, Build Backend Warnings, and a caution on wheel installationu/zurtex · Nov 3 · text post
3. PyPI's redesigned project pages with clearer security signals are now liveu/AlSweigart · Nov 8 · text post
4. PyCharm 2026.3 released (IDE)u/greenrobot_de · Nov 5 · text post
5. CPython core dev Larry Hastings on testing race conditions in free-threaded Python and AI-codingu/miabajic · Nov 2 · text post
6. Internals of Asynciou/humbulani-ndou · Nov 7 · text post
7. Mysterious Lazy Importsu/__peg_parser__ · Nov 7 · text post
8. What Python project taught you the most about real world development?u/Sonu_Jana · Nov 4 · text post
9. the faulthandler i turned on to catch crashes was causing them (windows, all_threads=True)u/Stunning-Sherbet1853 · Nov 7 · text post
10. Showcase Threadu/AutoModerator · Nov 4 · text post

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/Python, from 2017 to 2020, ranked by Reddit.

1. Lad wrote a Python script to download Alexa voice recordings, he didn't expect this email.u/iEslam · Apr 20, 2020 · 10,206 points · 131 comments · image
2. This post has:u/Krukerfluk · Jul 10, 2020 · text post
3. I redesign the Python logo to make it more modernu/jessjwilliamson · May 8, 2020 · image
4. Automate the boring stuff with python - tinderu/backprop88 · Dec 19, 2017 · 6,166 points · 359 comments · video
5. I'm excited to share my first published book, Introduction to Python Programming for Business and Social Science Applications -- specifically geared towards students not specifically in computer scie…u/paulkaefer · Sep 12, 2020 · image
6. Drawing Mona Lisa with 256 circles using evolution [Github repo in comments]u/Itwist101 · May 20, 2020 · video
7. I made a simulation using Python in which a neural network learns to raceu/atqm- · Jul 13, 2020 · video
8. Thanks to everyone’s advice, my mouse drawing algorithm has gotten much better and faster!u/Nekose · May 11, 2020 · video
9. Debugging Cheat Sheetu/HotTeenBoy · Aug 22, 2020 · image
10. Just trying to create a orbit system in python and this happened...u/LAMagicx · Oct 10, 2019 · 5,044 points · 371 comments · video

What r/Python talks about

Looking at the titles of 114 recent posts (Oct 31–Nov 7), the words that come up most are “built”, “library”, “open-source”, “project” and “daily”. Other frequent themes are windows, free, lightweight, tool, agent and agents. Recurring phrases include “open-source tool”, “value drift”, “b2b sales” and “sales revenue”. By format, 100% are text posts.

• built 17
• library 7
• open-source 6
• project 6
• daily 6
• windows 6
• free 5
• lightweight 5
• tool 4
• agent 4
• agents 4
• code 4
• security 4
• community 3
• cli 3
• learning 3
• pure 3
• looking 3

Popular post flairs: Showcase (51), Discussion (29), Resource (12), :pythonLogo: Daily Thread (6), News (6), Tutorial (5).

Activity and best time to post

r/Python gets about 16 new posts a day. The public archive holds 248,733 posts and 1,547,475 comments in total, about 6.2 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Sunday (23 posts) and the quietest was Friday (13). Posting peaks around 07:00 UTC and is lowest around 01:00 UTC.

Rules of r/Python

The moderators of r/Python list 11 rules. In short:

1. "How do I", Help, or similar questions belong in r/LearnPython
2. Posts must be relevant to the Python Programming Language
3. When posting projects please include both description text and a link to source code
4. Project posts must use showcase flairs and must be text
5. Submissions must be descriptive
6. No Paywalled Content
7. No Banned Links
8. Non-English Language
9. Please don't downvote without commenting your reasoning for doing so
10. Showcases must include required sections

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/Python and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.

Frequently asked questions

Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 9, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/Python.