"Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi >> To be fair, it's really the "Python Package Index", it just happens to >> be >> stored on a machine called cheeseshop. >> >> > You are being more that fair! The page in question reads: > > """ > Cheese Shop: Home > > The Python Cheese Shop is a repository of software for the Python > programming language. > > Customer: Now then, some cheese please, my good man. > Owner: (lustily) Certainly, sir. What would you like? > Customer: Well, eh, how about a little red Leicester. > Owner: I'm, a-fraid we're fresh out of red Leicester, sir. > > There are currently 874 packages in the Cheese Shop. You may: > > * Search > * Browse the tree of packages > * View a flat list of all packages > * Submit package information (note that you must register to submit) > """ > > followed by a list of 20 recent additions. This is simply inane web > design, and is a significant reason why Python isn't always taken > seriously. The words "Python Package Index" don't appear anywhere in the > body text. The relevant nav bar section is headed "Cheese Shop Actions", > which is more or less guaranteed to confuse many people whose first > language isn't English, and many (not in the know about Monty Python) > whose first language *is* English.
You are right. This wacko intro has been added since I last looked. Truly bizarre. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
