On 2026-08-24 I shipped a change to the configuration that emits PyPI’s download logs so that only requests for actual distribution artifacts are counted. A request has to end in .whl, .tar.gz, or .zip to produce a download record. The counts are more accurate now, and existing systems based onContinue Reading
Working on infrastructure at the Python Software Foundation (PSF) as the Director of Engineering is a broad job with many hats. Python turns up everywhere. It’s in healthcare systems and government agencies, in research labs and classrooms, in one-person side projects and in infrastructure at companies with six-figure headcounts. SomebodyContinue Reading
PyPI has adopted PEP 833, which “freezes” the HTML representation of the index API, which is also sometimes called the “simple API” or the “simple repository API.” New packages and releases will continue to appear in the HTML representation, meaning this has no breaking implications for downstream index consumers. However,Continue Reading