Back in 2021 I did some analysis of PyPI package names and version strings in the post The rinds of the Cheese Shop menu. Five years on, let's see how things have changed. At the time of writing, PyPI contains: 736,344 packages with at least one version (up from 311,063 in 2021 — nearly...

I saw that PiWheels posted their PyPI (pronounced pie-pee-eye, not pie-pie as that’s the JIT interpreter) article, showing off some neato stats, like the longest PyPI package names, and such.