On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 3:20 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 10:07:13AM -0500, Paul Ganssle wrote: > > > I knew about sortedcontainers and I also don't remember ever seeing a > > situation where I needed one or recommended its use. > > We have a very odd situation where apparently sortedcontainers is one > of the most well-known, popular, most heavily downloaded libraries on > PyPI. According to here: > > https://hugovk.github.io/top-pypi-packages/ > > sortedcontainers is the 290th most popular package on PyPI, ahead of > such luminaries as pylint, black, selenium, mypy, django and nose. > > And yet, nobody(?) admits to either using it or knowing what it could be > used for. How very curious :-/ >
I think that proves the value of download counts: very little. The highest on the list is a thing called botocore, which I've never heard of. What is it? It's a dependency of a number of Amazon web services. My guess is that it's a dependency of popular tools - or maybe of automatically-installed tools, even - while not itself being well known. Actually, quite a few of the most popular packages on that list are Amazon-related, so quite possibly they're all being installed as a set in response to one single *actual* dependency. (Download counts DO most likely indicate that something is heavily used, though, so if people are trying to plan out a benchmark suite, then that might be more useful. But I'm not really surprised that a heavily-downloaded package isn't itself well known.) ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/LF622NRJBFBNHKZR2B7P6X4D2GE4WSDX/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
