Python Internet Database

[Ian Kelly]

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 2:45 PM,  <junnia at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am writing a PhD thesis comparing computer languages, and Python and Ruby is among the languages I am working with. I am using the Rasch Model to measure latent traits and  like productivity, expressivity, referential transparency and efficiency. If a member of this list wants to read a short tutorial about the Rasch Model, here is the address:
>
> http://strues.org/languages
>
> To keep with my work, I need an Internet Data Base from where a person writing a program in Python could fetch libraries, applications, compilers, etc. One of the things I need to measure is how complete and easy to use is such a data base. I will give a concrete example.

It sounds to me like you're looking for PyPI:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi

The official way to install packages from PyPI is using the pip
package manager, e.g.:
> pip install numpy

pip is included with sufficiently recent Python releases, or can be
installed separately.