232,387 User accounts on steemit at (12:00 noon EAT). Steemit is growing quite fast

[samuelgichu]

THIS IS HOW I CALCULATED USING THE STEEM-PYTHON API

#1 YOU SHOULD INSTALL PYTHON IN YOUR COMPUTER

Windows

If you are running Windows on you machine, install the latest version of python.Download the executable file from here

https://www.python.org/downloads/

preferably download the python 3.6.1

Install the python executable file(.exe) in windows.

Make sure you mark this options

• install launcher for all user 
• Add python 3.6 to path

After you have successfully installed python navigate to the folder where you installed python 3.6.1 e.g

C:\python3

open command prompt (CMD) and get into the python3 folder

cd python3

Now we install steem-python using pip

C:\python3>python.exe -m pip install -U steem

After it has successfully installed steem-python libraries, we are good to go.

Run python.exe in your python3 folder

C:\python3>python.exe

This will open a command line interface where you can type your code
Now we begin by importing Steem class

>>> from steem import Steem

then we can now calculate the number of user accounts in steemit by

>>> b = Steem()              #creating instance of the class steem

>>> b.get_account_count()    #call method get_account_count()

232,387

Ubuntu

If you run Ubuntu version 14 and above, don't worry python 3  package comes pre-installed in the operating system

but run the following command to update python3 in ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get update 

$ sudo apt-get -y upgrade

 after you have installed python in your computer you must install pip in your python package

$ sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip 

Then we use pip to install our steem-python package

pip3 install packagename

pip3 install -U steem

After you steem-python package has installed
run python3 in terminal e.g

kibocha@kibocha-HP-Pavilion-15-Notebook-PC:~$ python3

now we can write our code

>>> b = Steem()              #creating instance of the class steem

>>> b.get_account_count()    # call the method get_account_count

232,387

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Comments

[rocking-dave]

Great and informative. I like the fact that you not only shared the stat, but how you got it using code.

[samuelgichu]

Thanks
I am glad that you liked the post.
I look forward to doing more articles on how to use the steemit-python API

[wilkinshui]

Thanks i really like python, it is easy to learn, with many useful custom made function ready for you to explore and also very powerful. I have been using R and python back and forth and finally find python is much better.

[samuelgichu]

That makes two of us.
Python is a great language which is used in many fields. I have never used R, but I think it's something to do with data science right? @wilkinshui

[wilkinshui]

Yes basically it is similar to python but with more extensive data package for data science analysis. For me both is ok because i am using them for equity and economic trend analysis and python is much easier and clearer for me.

[samuelgichu]

That's great,
I also think that Python will dominate the programming ecosystem very soon, maybe it will be Java's competitor