On Nov 25, 3:54 pm, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > 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. > OK that makes sense. I thought it was some comment on how 'good' the package in question was !
I will do as you say and submit a bug report to get the literal altered to something a little more self-explanatory. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
