Pypi (Cheeseshop) Score - derivation of ?

[shearichard]

Hi - Anyone know how the score offered by Pypi is derived ?

For instance in ...

http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=search&term=spam&submit=search

.... 'bud.nospam 1.0.1' has a score of 9 but 'pydspam 1.1.9' has a
score of 7.

Where are those numbers from and what do they mean ?

Thanks


R.

 

[shearichard]

Specifically, the score offered in response to a search query.



They are the relevance of the result to that particular search query. I
don't know the scale of the score or how it's derived, but that's the
intended meaning AFAIK.

I think a better term than “score” could be chosen; perhaps you could
submit a bug report against PyPI.

OK that makes sense. I thought it was some comment on how 'good' the
package in question was !

I will do as you say and submit a bug report to get the literal
altered to something a little more self-explanatory.

 

[alex23]

Hi - Anyone know how the score offered by Pypi is derived ?

For instance in ...

http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=search&term=spam&submit=search

... 'bud.nospam 1.0.1' has a score of 9 but 'pydspam 1.1.9' has a
score of 7.

If you hover over the Score header in the results list, it says:

Occurrence of search term weighted by field (name, summary, keywords,
description, author, maintainer)

I thought PyPI used to offer a 'kwality' score for packages, based on
the presence of installers, doc files, tests etc. Does anyone know
what happened to that?

 

[Martin v. Loewis]

Occurrence of search term weighted by field (name, summary, keywords,

description, author, maintainer)

I thought PyPI used to offer a 'kwality' score for packages, based on
the presence of installers, doc files, tests etc. Does anyone know
what happened to that?

There was indeed a kwalitee computation (cheesecake); it is unmaintained.

It is a urban myth that this had any impact on search results. It never did.

Regards,
Martin

 

[alex23]

There was indeed a kwalitee computation (cheesecake); it is unmaintained.

Ah yes, I couldn't remember the particular mispelling the project
used