[deathanatos]

pip has a download counter.

I don't think downloads is a direct measure of good/"awesomeness"; low-level libraries that get linked in often, for example, get a higher download count for that, but might not be something often needed by an end user. (In Rust, I see the library for Aho-Corasick all the time, for example.)

In Python, I believe pyasn1 is in the top 10; but parsing raw ASN.1 is probably not something a dev should be doing that often; a higher-level library like cryptography would probably be more appropriate.