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).
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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The AI and Agents section carried two Speech entries that fail admission, its tier order no longer matched downloads, LiteLLM was not listed under its PyPI name, and unsloth's line missed its desktop app. Downloads are PyPI last-30-day via ClickPy, fetched 2026-09-26.
Removed:
- vibevoice (440/month): the only PyPI release is 0.0.1 from 2025-09-26; the TTS-1.5B model is disabled after misuse and the ASR model now ships in transformers, so nothing pip-installable is maintained.
- kittentts (1,917/month): the README marks it "Developer preview" (fails Stable), and PyPI kittentts is a third-party upload while the project installs from its GitHub release wheel.
Also:
- pydantic-ai promoted to obvious choice above crewai (5.37M vs 2.48M); crewai's pypistats monthly series swung from 28.5M in Aug to 2.4M in Sep and it requires_python <3.14, so it is now a Second Tier challenger.
- claude-agent-sdk reordered above openai-agents (29.1M vs 12.1M).
- LiteLLM renamed to litellm, its canonical PyPI name.
- unsloth description now mentions the desktop app.
- gTTS reordered above funasr by downloads (1.14M vs 282K).
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
The preview only had keep/drop, so a proposed new entry had to be seeded as drop and flipped to Keep to add it, which was confusing.
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