Distutils-SIG September 2021

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Question from a Beginner
by Sonic Emitter3000 24 Sep '21

24 Sep '21

Hello, hope you're doing well. I greatly appreciate the effort of you people to make open source projects like you do, but I must ask. I have heard that security is quite lax when installing modules using the most popular sites for Python modules. Would you know of how I would protect myself more from potentially malicious fakes of popular Python modules?

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ANN: distlib 0.3.3 released on PyPI
by Vinay Sajip 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

I've recently released version 0.3.3 of distlib on PyPI [1]. For newcomers, distlib is a library of packaging functionality which is intended to be usable as the basis for third-party packaging tools. The main changes in this release are as follows: * Fixed #152: Removed splituser() function which wasn't used and is deprecated. * Fixed #149: Handle version comparisons correctly in environment markers. * Add ARM-64 launchers and support code to use them. Thanks to Niyas Sait and Adrian Vladu for their contributions. * Fixed #148: Handle a single trailing comma following a version. Thanks to Blazej Floch for the report and suggested fix. * Fixed #150: Fix incorrect handling of epochs. * Reverted handling of tags for Python >= 3.10 (use 310 rather than 3_10). This is because PEP 641 was rejected. * Added a GitHub Actions workflow to perform tests. A more detailed change log is available at [2]. Please try it out, and if you find any problems or have any suggestions for improvements, please give some feedback using the issue tracker! [3] Regards, Vinay Sajip [1] https://pypi.org/project/distlib/0.3.3/ [2] https://distlib.readthedocs.io/en/0.3.3/ [3] https://bitbucket.org/pypa/distlib/issues/new

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