[Python-ideas] The stdlib++ user experience (Was: Introduce `start=1` argument to `math.factorial`)

[Todd]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 19 Sep 2014 04:54, "Georg Brandl" <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> > On 09/18/2014 08:26 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> >
> > > Every time an issue like this comes up, I know that I'm looking to do
> > > "pip install XXX". It's working out what XXX is that's the problem.
> > >
> > > So I go and ask Google. A quick check on the progress bar case gets me
> > > to a StackOverflow article that offers me a lot of "write it yourself"
> > > solutions, and pointers to a couple of libraries. Further down there
> > > are a few pointers to python-progressbar, which was mentioned in the
> > > StackOverflow article, which in turn leads me to the PyPI page for it.
> > > The latest version (2.3-dev) is not hosted on PyPI, so I hit all the
> > > fun of --allow-external.
>
> Paul, this could make a good "What problem are we actually trying to fix?"
> summary on pypa.io.
>
> We have spent a lot of time so far on the "getting people the packages
> they ask for" side of things, but have barely scratched the surface of
> "helping people find the packages that can help them". At the moment "word
> of mouth" is one of our main discovery tools, and that's an issue for
> newcomers that may not have a big network of fellow developers yet.
>
> This is a problem I think the Django community actually addressed fairly
> well through https://www.djangopackages.com/
>
> There are similar comparison sites for Pyramid & Plone, after Audrey &
> Danny broke out the back end of Django Packages to make it independently
> deployable (see http://opencomparison.readthedocs.org/en/latest/)
>
>
>
There is also scipy central for scientific code:

http://scipy-central.org/
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