Comments on: Python Package Popularity Contest

By: kevin gill

kevin gill — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:04:22 +0000

Great script, thanks.

There are now thousands of packages on PyPI, over 700 zope related. It is impossible (for me) to track new useful stuff coming out. This script is a great help.

However, I agree with you comments – PyPI should be extended to provide this kind of data easily.

By: mike bayer

mike bayer — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:00:05 +0000

this is also only taking the most recent version of each project into account. So projects that have been released more recently are bumped down. There’s no temporal element to the number of downloads in general so its a fairly useless metric overall.

By: Heikki Toivonen

Heikki Toivonen — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:09:01 +0000

Thank you for comments everyone, useful information I was not aware of.

By: Christopher Arndt

Christopher Arndt — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:28:58 +0000

These statistics are heavily skewed because some packages make more intensive usage of the PyPI infrastructure for installation than others.

For example, I suspect the reason that kid is so high in this list is because it is downloaded whenever TurboGears 1.x is installed via easy_install/tgsetup.py and it is one of the few packages that are not hosted on turbogears.org itself.

By: Seo Sanghyeon

Seo Sanghyeon — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:08:10 +0000

Entire Debian Popularity Contest raw data is available at http://popcon.debian.org/

By: Tarek Ziadé

Tarek Ziadé — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:46:28 +0000

you can get these info here: http://pypi.python.org/webstats/

Also, notice that zc.buildout is automatically downloaded everytime someone in the world builds a Plone or any buildout-based application, so these stats are not reflecting ‘who’ did a download.

But there’s some work going on for this

Cheers