shearichard <shearich...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi - Anyone know how the score offered by Pypi is derived ?
Specifically, the score offered in response to a search query. > For instance in ... > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=spam&submit=search > > ... 'bud.nospam 1.0.1' has a score of 9 but 'pydspam 1.1.9' has a > score of 7. > > Where are those numbers from and what do they mean ? They are the relevance of the result to that particular search query. I don't know the scale of the score or how it's derived, but that's the intended meaning AFAIK. I think a better term than “score” could be chosen; perhaps you could submit a bug report against PyPI. -- \ “One of the most important things you learn from the internet | `\ is that there is no ‘them’ out there. It's just an awful lot of | _o__) ‘us’.” —Douglas Adams | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
