[Debian-science-sagemath] [RFP]: primecount -- count the primes below an integer

[Vincent Delecroix]

Le 31/01/2022 à 13:31, Dima Pasechnik a écrit :
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 10:17 AM Tobias Hansen <thansen at debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 1/28/22 10:32, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>>> I'm the main author of primecountpy, let me know if you have problems with it.
>>>
>>> We're able to build binary wheels for it, see
>>> https://pypi.org/project/primecountpy/
>>> (this is done using PyPI's cibuildwheel using GitHub Actions:
>>> https://github.com/dimpase/primecountpy/blob/master/.github/workflows/wheels.yml)
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Dima
>>>
>>
>> Thank you. Jerome uploaded primecount (it's in new) and I already did a successful test build of primecountpy and sagemath 9.5.
>>
>> Is there a reason why you didn't call the python module primecount? (Of course I understand why the project is called primecountpy.)
>> The "import primecountpy as primecount" in the readme suggests that's the module name you really wanted.
> 
> "primecount" was taken on PyPI - it's an interface to primecount
> library, lacking features etc. in many ways, so I instead created
> primecountpy (well, re-using the cython code from Sage).

I second Tobias. It is much nicer to write in python

     sage: import primecount

rather than

     sage: import primecountpy

This is what is done for example with pplpy (name of the package)
which is imported via

     sage: import ppl

This has nothing to do with the package name on PyPI.

Vincent