On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:56 PM, kirby.ur...@gmail.com <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote: >> http://packages.python.org/dbf/ >> >> So how *do* you get source code from such a web place? I'm not >> finding >> a tar ball or installer. Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, like >> a link >> to Sourceforge. >> > > Thanks to very quick replies with pointers to > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/dbf/ > > instead of to packages.python.org/dbf > > So this packages.python.org subdomain is perhaps > unaware of its pypi.python.org competition, which > has a brighter and more open look and feel? > > What's the story there I wonder?
It's quite simple actually. http://packages.python.org/ : """ This site hosts documentation uploaded by authors of packages in the Python Package Index (http://pypi.python.org). """ One is the actual package index, the other holds docs for packages in the index. Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list