On 9/14/2010 11:06 PM, geremy condra wrote: > 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 > Post it to the list. If people complain, they can complain at me.
Thanks very much. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010 http://djangocon.us/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ _______________________________________________ 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
