On 12.11.2021 17:10, Steven D'Aprano 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 :-/
Those download stats can be misleading. Packages are often pulled in as a dependency of other packages which are popular or used a lot in CI/CD setups. Perhaps there's a reverse dependency graph we could use to find out why the package is downloaded this often. I remember having seen a project which does this, but have lost the URL. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Experts (#1, Nov 12 2021) >>> Python Projects, Coaching and Support ... https://www.egenix.com/ >>> Python Product Development ... https://consulting.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: We implement business ideas - efficiently in both time and costs ::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 https://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ https://www.malemburg.com/ _______________________________________________ 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/FJT4SSWISWWRFB5FGRPXSLDLDZVMUIXF/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
