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- Wow, long time no see.
psutil is a great project and I do have some future plans involving it.
by zahlman - It has never been clear to me what the term "wheels" means in software releases. seems like something along the lines of "thing that works" – does it mean anything more specific than that?
- https://hugovk.github.io/free-threaded-wheels/ is looking pretty healthy - 130 of the 360 most downloaded C extension PyPI packages are now free-threaded Python compatible, up from 92 on 15th August https://web.archive.org/web/20250815071755/https://hugovk.gi...
I was curious as to how that site works - it has a build script at https://github.com/hugovk/free-threaded-wheels/blob/cdae0b45... which checks the PyPI available file downloads for a package and looks for a bdist_wheel that matches this:
abi_tag = download["filename"].removesuffix(".whl").split("-")[-2] if abi_tag.endswith("t") and abi_tag.startswith("cp31"): has_free_threaded_wheel = Trueby simonw