How many members does r/Python have?

r/Python has about 1.5M members (as of July 2026).

How active is r/Python?

r/Python gets roughly 4 new posts per day (measured July 2026).

Allowed with conditions

Promoting on r/Python: Rules and What Gets Removed

r/Python is a large Reddit community for news, packages, and meta information about the Python programming language, and it directs how-to questions to r/LearnPython.

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community rules

Can you promote your product in r/Python?

You can post a Python-related project, but promotion is tightly conditioned by the project and showcase rules. The rules say "When posting projects please include both description text and a link to source code," project posts "must use a showcase flair & use a text post," and "No showcase posts" applies to AI showcases outside the monthly showcase post or a daily thread.

The rules that cover promotion

Rule 1: No showcase posts

"Due to an increase of showcases featuring AI content such as working with multiple AI models or wrappers around APIs, this is no longer allowed. Please post your showcases in the appropriate monthly showcase post or a daily thread instead."

Rule 4: When posting projects please include both description text and a link to source code

"When posting a project please include an image showing your project if applicable, a textual description of your project including how Python is relevant to it and a link to source code."

Rule 5: Project posts must use showcase flairs and must be text

"When posting a project you must use a showcase flair & use a text post, not an image post, video post or similar."

Rule 11: Showcases must include required sections

"Showcase posts must have these sections: - **What My Project Does** - **Target Audience** - **Comparison**"

Quoted from the subreddit's own rules, snapshot from July 2026. Read all 11 rules on Reddit

What gets removed

AI showcase posts outside the monthly showcase post or a daily thread
Project posts without description text, Python relevance, or a link to source code
Project posts that are not text posts with showcase flair
Paywalled content, banned links, and low quality blogs

Safer ways to show up

If you post a project, make it a text post with a showcase flair
Include a clear description, explain how Python is relevant, and link the source code
Add the required showcase sections: What My Project Does, Target Audience, Comparison
For AI-related showcases, use the monthly showcase post or a daily thread

Whatever the written rules say, the pattern that gets promo removed everywhere is the same: batches of similar comments, reused wording, and necro-posting on old threads. A promotional mention only has value if it survives, so pace matters more than volume. We measured this the expensive way: 70% of bought pool comments were removed within two weeks. See also how to find customers on Reddit without getting banned.