About

Welcome to pypi.python.org, the Python community's software hosting service.

Here you'll find a Python package to suit almost any need.

The project was started in 2002, and has since grown to include the contributions of over a dozen Python programmers, packages and millions of downloads.

The Python Package Index (PyPI) is hosted by the Python Software Foundation (who run the python.org systems) but the project is community-run. Currently there's two maintainers, Richard Jones and Martin von Löwis. To contact the admins, please use the Get help or Bug reports links.

The index itself is written in Python but pre-dates modern Python web frameworks (more detail).

To submit a package use "python setup.py upload" and to use a package from this index either "pip install package" or download, unpack and "python setup.py install" it.

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You can access the data in PyPI from a program using either the per-package JSON data or the XML-RPC interface.

PyPI now provides a Mirror infrastructure to allow users to continue downloading file even if pypi.python.org is unavailable.

PyPI has also been known as The Python Cheese Shop (and indeed cheeseshop.python.org still works).

And now for something completely different...

Customer: Now then, some cheese please, my good man.
Owner: (lustily) Certainly, sir. What would you like?
Customer: Well, eh, how about a little red Leicester.
Owner: I'm, a-fraid we're fresh out of red Leicester, sir.