Database of non standard library modules...

[Terry Reedy]

"Steve Holden" <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote in message 
news:de70n1$m0q$1 at sea.gmane.org...
>>>>http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi
>> To be fair, it's really the "Python Package Index", it just happens to 
>> be
>> stored on a machine called cheeseshop.
>>
>>
> You are being more that fair! The page in question reads:
>
> """
> Cheese Shop: Home
>
> The Python Cheese Shop is a repository of software for the Python
> programming language.
>
> Customer: Now then, some cheese please, my good man.
> Owner: (lustily) Certainly, sir. What would you like?
> Customer: Well, eh, how about a little red Leicester.
> Owner: I'm, a-fraid we're fresh out of red Leicester, sir.
>
> There are currently 874 packages in the Cheese Shop. You may:
>
>     * Search
>     * Browse the tree of packages
>     * View a flat list of all packages
>     * Submit package information (note that you must register to submit)
> """
>
> followed by a list of 20 recent additions. This is simply inane web
> design, and is a significant reason why Python isn't always taken
> seriously. The words "Python Package Index" don't appear anywhere in the
> body text. The relevant nav bar section is headed "Cheese Shop Actions",
> which is more or less guaranteed to confuse many people whose first
> language isn't English, and many (not in the know about Monty Python)
> whose first language *is* English.

You are right.  This wacko intro has been added since I last looked.  Truly 
bizarre.