Packages at Python.org

[Chris Rebert]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:56 PM, kirby.urner at gmail.com
<kirby.urner at 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