On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:06 PM, geremy condra <debat...@gmail.com> wrote: > I ran some statistics on the number of times modules out of the stdlib > got imported a few months ago and came up with a reasonably > comprehensive list of the least-used things in the stdlib. For the > record, since I wound up parsing import statements and know some > garbage data got in, its reasonable to assume that a few otherwise > valid imports aren't recorded here. But enough with the disclaimers.
Neat! > I'm not sure what the name of the library was originally, but the word > 'gopher' does not appear in any of the imports that I was able to > parse in pypi. By contrast, nntplib and poplib are tied at 8, and as > would be expected there are only a few recognizable names below that- > aepack, aetypes, and posixfile are each stuck at 0; fractions, > Bastion, and xdrlib have three, etc. > > The top five are os, sys, unittest, re, and time (in that order) with > 27468, 18334, 14714, 13019, and 9906 imports respectively. Looks like we did a poor job naming unittest. The Huffman-encoding seems to have worked well for the others though. > If it doesn't annoy I can post the whole list, or email it privately > to the interested. Do post. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
