[Python-Dev] Rework nntlib? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Sep 15 05:33:49 CEST 2010

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:06 PM, geremy condra <debatem1 at gmail.com> wrote:

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.

Neat!

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.

Looks like we did a poor job naming unittest. The Huffman-encoding seems to have worked well for the others though.

If it doesn't annoy I can post the whole list, or email it privately to the interested.

Do post.

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