Audio listed no general audio file I/O library, though soundfile is the standard libsndfile reader and writer under librosa.
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Removed: vidgear (10,854 downloads/month, pypistats 2026-10-02): a challenger with no adoption trajectory (about half its August count), not anyone's unprompted answer next to moviepy and PyAV. Also: pydub moves below librosa to Second Tier under the Python-version rule; its only release, 0.25.1 (2021), fails `import pydub` on Python 3.13+ without audioop-lts, but it still has 17,778,797 downloads/month.
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PDF omitted pymupdf, the second most-installed PDF library at 81,101,392 downloads/month (pypistats 2026-10-02) and the fastest at text extraction and page rendering.
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beautifulsoup4 sat above lxml although lxml now has more monthly downloads (313.9M vs 297.1M), and the reportlab link redirected to the docs site.
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Removed: sqids (537,334 downloads/month, pypistats 2026-10-02): fails the 12-month activity line (last commit 2025-03-26, last release 2025-05-13), and its predecessor hashids still draws about 4x its downloads, so there is no successor trajectory to justify a challenger slot.
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Removed: tkdesigner (317 downloads/month, ClickPy 2026-10-01): its only PyPI release, 1.0.7 (2023-01-22), pins Pillow<9, requests==2.25.1 and urllib3<2, so it has no installable wheels on Python 3.11+, which reverses the August keep. gooey (6,049/month): no release since 1.0.8.1 on 2021-06-12. Dropping gooey empties Wrappers, so the subcategory is dissolved and its URL redirects to /categories/gui-development/. Also: Desktop re-tier, dearpygui up to obvious choice (the only Desktop entry that grew since August) and wxPython down to Second Tier (about half its August downloads).
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Network Virtualization lacked netmiko, the standard Python library for SSH network-device automation, though most of its downloads are standalone rather than pulled in by napalm.
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Distributed Computing listed ray first though pyspark and dask now outdraw it, Workflow Orchestration listed apache-airflow and prefect above dagster, which now leads on downloads, and the Network Virtualization description fit neither scapy nor napalm.
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Removed: chaostoolkit (11,525 downloads/month, ClickPy 2026-10-01): no adoption-trajectory evidence and falling (about 18K in August); active, so the drop is editorial. Also: awscli's line now says the PyPI package is CLI v1, which entered maintenance mode on 2026-07-15 (end of support 2027-07-15), while v2 ships only as AWS's bundled installer.
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Removed: hunter (782,874 downloads/month, pypistats 2026-10-02): fails the 12-month activity line (last commit and release 3.9.0 on 2025-08-22). viztracer (1,173,045/month on the same source, pushed 2026-09-26) takes the Tracing slot.
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Removed: freezegun (45,539,075 downloads/month, pypistats 2026-10-02): fails the 12-month activity line (last commit 2025-08-19, last release 2025-08-09), and time-machine (18,960,236/month, released 3.5.1 on 2026-09-08) is an active successor for the same job that ships a freezegun migration tool, so freezegun does not qualify as a mature-stable keep. time-machine takes the slot as a challenger, last in Mock.
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Removed: repowise (14,584 downloads/month, pypistats 2026-10-02): no adoption trajectory (about 33K in August to 19.5K on ClickPy), and it left Code Analysis with three challengers against a limit of two. monkeytype (529,705/month): fails the 12-month activity line (default branch last commit 2025-06-14, last release 2023-03-20). Dropping monkeytype empties Type Annotations Generators, so the subcategory is dissolved and its URL redirects to /categories/code-analysis/.
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Removed: transitions (2,483,235 downloads/month, pypistats 2026-10-02): fails the 12-month activity line (last commit 2025-09-09, last release 2025-07-02), and python-statemachine (1,430,000-plus/month, released 3.2.1 on 2026-08-01) is an active successor for the same job, so it does not qualify as a mature-stable keep.
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biopython sat above rdkit although rdkit now has more downloads (ClickPy 2026-10-01), against the downloads-order rule.
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Data Validation omitted great-expectations, the most-installed data quality framework at 19,340,380 downloads/month (pypistats 2026-10-02), more than twice pandera's 8,170,879; the audit left it out only because it requires Python <3.14, which the Python-version rule no longer treats as grounds for exclusion.
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Dashboards and Apps omitted Plotly's dash, which outdraws the listed gradio (6,253,566 vs 5,227,393 downloads/month, pypistats 2026-10-02).
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Removed: pygraphviz (528,553 downloads/month, pypistats 2026-10-02): displaced by graphviz (32,829,050/month, part of it catboost pulling it in), which does the same job of building and rendering Graphviz graphs as pure Python with no C build.
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Removed: pathway (8,449 downloads/month, pypistats 2026-10-02): not open source (Business Source License, converting to Apache 2.0 only after four years, with a cloud-resale ban) and flat downloads, so no adoption trajectory for a challenger slot. Also: openbb's link moves to github.com/openbq-org/OpenBB, where OpenBB-finance/OpenBB now redirects after the company's wind-down handed the code to the non-profit OpenBQ.
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django-mongodb-backend, a Django ORM backend rather than a database driver, sat under Database Drivers. psycopg's line called it "the most popular PostgreSQL adapter", false for psycopg 3 (psycopg2-binary plus psycopg2 total about 268M downloads/month vs psycopg 122.7M). django-cacheops (2,032,868) sat below dogpile.cache (1,913,993) in Caching, and elasticsearch (34,739,455) above opensearch-py (38,565,351) in Search, both against the downloads order.
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Removed: pixeltable (4,356 downloads/month, pypistats 2026-10-02): a data engine that runs an embedded PostgreSQL with one writer process, not an in-process vector database, with no adoption trajectory for a challenger slot. Also: lancedb (7,888,645) moves above chromadb (6,619,378) to follow the downloads order.
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Email had no answer for sending through transactional email services from Django without vendor lock-in.
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Email listed only yagmail, a Gmail-focused wrapper, while aiosmtplib, the general asyncio SMTP client, was missing.
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Removed: html2text (12,324,912 downloads/month, pypistats 2026-10-02): last release 2025-04-15, last commit 2025-10-28, GPL-3.0, and markdownify does the same HTML-to-Markdown job at 52,097,079/month (about 38M after markitdown's dependency pull). Content Extraction now reads markdownify, feedparser, trafilatura.
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httpx held an obvious-choice slot with no stable release since 0.28.1 and its maintainer closed issues and discussions, while httpx2, Pydantic's same-API continuation, sat last despite openai, anthropic, huggingface-hub, mcp and langsmith now requiring it.
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Web Asset Management omitted whitenoise, the standard static-file server for Django and WSGI production setups and the most-installed tool in the use case.
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Web APIs > Flask lacked marshmallow-code's flask-smorest, the second most-installed Flask API framework, so the challenger apiflask sat above a more widely used entry.
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Web APIs > Flask listed only apiflask (172,781 downloads/month) while flask-restx, the most-installed Flask API framework at 1,162,703 (pypistats 2026-10-02), was missing.
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In Web APIs > Framework Agnostic, connexion (4.26M downloads/month) sat above strawberry (5.76M) against the downloads-order rule, and gunicorn's line omitted the native ASGI worker it has shipped stable since 25.1.0. hypercorn stays in Second Tier (last position, unchanged) under the new Python-version rule instead of being dropped.
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No written rule covered Python version support, so audits treated a missing Python 3.14 wheel as grounds to drop entries that still have millions of users on older Pythons.
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CONTRIBUTING's Stable requirement read as "not alpha/beta", so about 40 production-used entries (fastapi, uvicorn, keras, statsmodels, numba, and others) failed it on their PyPI Development Status classifier alone, and each needed an audit-log exception.
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On a verdict preview page with no flipped rows, Copy feedback produced only a generic acceptance line, so a pasted acceptance did not say which page or sections it covered.
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The 2026-10-02 AI & ML audit kept or admitted five Beta-classifier entries and kept annoy past the 12-month activity line, but docs/audit-logs.md did not record these maintainer decisions, so the next audit would drop them as rule failures.
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The OCR list had pytesseract and easyocr but omitted PaddleOCR, which led 2026 open-source OCR benchmarks on multilingual text and complex layouts.
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Time Series Forecasting listed only timesfm, while prophet, the most-installed forecasting library, was missing.
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The tensorflow line called it "the most popular Deep Learning framework", false by downloads (torch 59.8M/month vs tensorflow 11.4M on pypistats, 2026-10-02), and the Frameworks tiers no longer matched the evidence: tensorflow 2.21.0 still ships no cp314 wheels (tensorflow/tensorflow#102890) and its releases now focus on security and bug fixes, while keras's 11.76M is mostly tensorflow pulling it in (requires keras>=3.12.0). Both move to Second Tier; jax (8.0M, Google's own successor) and pytorch-lightning (10.1M) become obvious choices.
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The 2026-10-01 AI and Agents audit kept claude-agent-sdk despite its Alpha classifier and semantica as a challenger without adoption-trajectory evidence, and neither override was on record in docs/audit-logs.md.
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