On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: > On 9/14/2010 4:40 PM, Jon Ribbens wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:43:46AM -0500, s...@pobox.com wrote: >>> We got rid of gopherlib a few years ago (deprecated in 2.5, presumably gone >>> in 2.6). I suspect the NNTP protocol has a greatly diminished user base as >>> well, GMANE's presence notwithstanding. >> >> NNTP is *very* considerably less dead than gopher. > > That's an interesting metric. Would you like to list the extant > libraries implementing protocols that are *not* "*very* considerably > less dead than gopher"? ;-) > > regards > Steve
I ran some statistics on the number of times modules out of the stdlib got imported a few months ago and came up with a reasonably comprehensive list of the least-used things in the stdlib. For the record, since I wound up parsing import statements and know some garbage data got in, its reasonable to assume that a few otherwise valid imports aren't recorded here. But enough with the disclaimers. I'm not sure what the name of the library was originally, but the word 'gopher' does not appear in any of the imports that I was able to parse in pypi. By contrast, nntplib and poplib are tied at 8, and as would be expected there are only a few recognizable names below that- aepack, aetypes, and posixfile are each stuck at 0; fractions, Bastion, and xdrlib have three, etc. The top five are os, sys, unittest, re, and time (in that order) with 27468, 18334, 14714, 13019, and 9906 imports respectively. If it doesn't annoy I can post the whole list, or email it privately to the interested. Geremy Condra _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
