From this (last year), Python 2.6 is bigger than 3:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caremad.io&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;a-year-of-pypi-downloads&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caremad.io&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;a-year-of-pypi-downloads&#x2F;</a><p>&gt;<i>I&#x27;m guessing that most people who use Python 3 are using recent versions of pip that have caching built in, so that may skew the results a bit.</i><p>Since pip updates itself too, why wouldn&#x27;t people using Python 2 also have newer versions?