Taking one of your examples: https://pypi.python.org/simple/acid/ 404s (I didn't bother checkin the other three). So there are links on /simple but no content for them. So I think your question is better asked, why are there links on /simple that lead to 404s.
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Martin Thoma <i...@martin-thoma.de> wrote: > Hello Python developers, > > Could anybody please answer the following question? > (I have asked it on http://stackoverflow.com/q/28010799/562769, but Steve > Barnes thinks I should ask it here) > > I am currently analyzing packages on PyPI. I use > https://pypi.python.org/simple/ to get all package names and > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/numpy/json and similar to get the metadata. > > However, there are 514 packages (e.g. abu.rpc, acid, about-pandoc, > about-numtest, ...) which do not have the https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ > site, but are on https://pypi.python.org/simple/. > > Why is that the case? > > Best regards, > Martin > > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/graffatcolmingov%40gmail.com > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com