[Distutils] how can projects with no files have downloads?

[holger krekel]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:05 +0800, Eduardo Schettino wrote:

> 
> > Hi Donald, all,
> >
> > I sometimes have doubts that the download numbers as shown by
> > pypi.python.org are correct.  Here is one case where i am pretty sure
> > something is wrong:
> >
> > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytes
> >
> > That's a project a friend uploaded after he heart me saying at my devpi
> > talk at EP2014 that i sometimes type "pip install pytes" :) It never had
> > files ASFAIK but has "18 downloads". How comes?
> >
> >
> Just guessing ...
> 
> It counts downloads REQUESTS, not successful downloads.
> Whether a download is completed or not (or even a download file exists)
> doesnt matter.

very good guess i guess! :)  Just did "pip install pytes" again, let's see
if it increases in an hour or so.

best,
holger

> cheers

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