Archive: 2021
piwheels stats 2021Q3
In the period of July — September 2021, 7,047,854 packages were downloaded from piwheels, bringing the total to 55,657,694. This has saved 33 years in the period, and 558 years in total! There were 48,256,952 pip searches, 875,834 project page hits, 397,834 web page hits and 1,094,432 project JSON...
piwheels stats 2021Q2
In the period of April — June 2021, 8,471,941 packages were downloaded from piwheels, bringing the total to 48,609,840. This has saved 38 years in the period, and 525 years in total! There were 56,200,613 pip searches, 764,031 project page hits, 386,472 web page hits and 116,486 project JSON...
The rinds of the Cheese Shop menu
The title is a reference to the mostly forgotten nickname of the excellent Python Package Index — Cheese Shop — which refers to the Monty Python Cheese Shop sketch. I often find myself staring at the piwheels monitor, and occasionally a strange package name or an unusually longer version number...
Python 3.9 wheels for Bullseye
Debian 11 (Bullseye) is due to be released shortly is now released, and Raspberry Pi OS will follow suit is also released. Bullseye comes with Python 3.9, so we needed to rebuild all platform wheels for the new ABI. We've added a Bullseye column to the versions table on project pages to show the...
piwheels stats 2021Q1
In the period of January — March 2021, 9,262,754 packages were downloaded from piwheels, bringing the total to 40,096,797. This has saved 46 years in the period, and 487 years in total! There were 59,141,950 pip searches, 722,140 project page hits, 399,097 web page hits and 84,621 project JSON...
piwheels stats for 2020
In 2020, a total of 16,184,523 packages were downloaded, taking the total to 30,815,907. This saved 269 years 3 months during 2020, taking us to over 441 years saved overall. 52TB of files were downloaded, taking the total to 103TB. Average daily downloads: 2019: 25,257 2020: 44,220 Average...
piwheels stats 2020Q4
In the period of October — December 2020, 4,643,950 packages were downloaded from piwheels, bringing the total to 30,815,907. This has saved 55 years in the period, and 439 years in total! There were 37,578,502 pip searches, 736,605 project page hits, 344,206 web page hits and 50,894 project JSON...