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docs: treat missing Python version support as a tier signal

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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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@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ Hard maximum: 5 entries per use case. This is a qualitative bar first and a nume
**Standard library**: a standard-library module is listed only where the stdlib is itself the obvious choice for the use case (tomllib yes, unittest no).
**Python versions**: missing support for the newest Python releases is not by itself grounds for removal while the entry still has a large user base; it can place the entry in the Second Tier instead.
**Evidence**: admission is decided by maintainer editorial judgment, informed primarily by PyPI download counts rather than GitHub stars. Judgment overrides the signal's known failure modes (CI-inflated counts, model releases consumed as weights rather than pip installs, large-but-specific audiences misread as "niche"). The maintainer's decision is final.
Looking for an exhaustive catalog instead? Follow the awesome-\* lists linked under individual entries (for example awesome-python-testing) — they exist precisely so this list doesn't have to be one.