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Do PyPI long-tail packages copy PyPy boilerplate? No: popular packages advertise non-CPython support more (72% vs 55%)
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Do PyPI long-tail packages copy PyPy boilerplate? No: popular packages advertise non-CPython support more (72% vs 55%)

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A PyPI project can name which Python interpreters it supports with Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: X classifiers on its latest release — X being CPython, PyPy, Jython, IronPython, Stackless, MicroPython, GraalPy and so on. An earlier census in this series measured the :: 3.N version matrix; this one asks a different question of a different classifier family: who advertises support for a Python that is not CPython, and does popularity change the answer?

I looked at two frames on one seeded sample (seed 20261022, fixed in advance): the HEAD (top 3,000 packages by download count) and the TAIL (3,000 packages drawn uniformly at random from all 921,938 projects on pypi.org).…

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