changed "2500 components" to "several thousand" since the number keeps
growning:-)
diff --git a/Doc/library/index.rst b/Doc/library/index.rst
index b15c16c..145d16a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/index.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/index.rst
@@ -31,8 +31,9 @@
optional components.
In addition to the standard library, there is a growing collection of
-over 2500 additional components available from the `Python Package Index
-<http://pypi.python.org/pypi>`_.
+several thousand components (from individual programs and modules to
+packages and entire application development frameworks), available from
+the `Python Package Index <http://pypi.python.org/pypi>`_.
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