For the last three years, Polkascan Foundation has been maintaining the Polkadot related Python libraries, such as py-substrate-interface, py-scale-codec and several Python bindings for cryptographic RUST crates used by Substrate. These client libraries are essential for Python developers to interact with any Polkadot, Kusama or other Substrate based chain.
As of writing 265 Github repositories and 21 Python packages are depending on our libraries.
With this treasury proposal, we are asking retroactive funding for our activities in the period April until September 2023. This averages out to approximately 4135 euro per month spent on development and tech support activities.
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Details about time spent and cost breakdown can be found in the Q2 & Q3 activity report.
To add context:
I don't personally use the libraries but I can see its value having used counterparts built for Typescript and Rust. With reference to Arjan's response to Ivy, the usage statistics are in keeping with expectations given that Python has a wide user base.