[Distutils] how can projects with no files have downloads?

[Eduardo Schettino]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 1:58 AM, holger krekel <holger at merlinux.eu> wrote:

> Hi Donald, all,
>
> I sometimes have doubts that the download numbers as shown by
> pypi.python.org are correct.  Here is one case where i am pretty sure
> something is wrong:
>
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytes
>
> That's a project a friend uploaded after he heart me saying at my devpi
> talk at EP2014 that i sometimes type "pip install pytes" :) It never had
> files ASFAIK but has "18 downloads". How comes?
>
>
Just guessing ...

It counts downloads REQUESTS, not successful downloads.
Whether a download is completed or not (or even a download file exists)
doesnt matter.

cheers
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