Packages at Python.org

[Robert Kern]

On 12/1/10 2:56 PM, kirby.urner at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> http://packages.python.org/dbf/
>>
>> So how *do* you get source code from such a web place?  I'm not
>> finding
>> a tar ball or installer.  Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, like
>> a link
>> to Sourceforge.
>>
>
> Thanks to very quick replies with pointers to
>
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/dbf/
>
> instead of to packages.python.org/dbf
>
> So this packages.python.org subdomain is perhaps
> unaware of its pypi.python.org competition, which
> has a brighter and more open look and feel?
>
> What's the story there I wonder?

pypi.python.org is the Python Package Index (PyPI). packages.python.org is a 
service for packages on PyPI to host their documentation if they have no other 
host. They are complementary services, not competition.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco