[Distutils] conventions or best practice to choose package names?

[Benoît Bryon]

Le 29/06/2012 18:01, Paul Moore a écrit :
> On 29 June 2012 15:34, Daniel Holth<dholth at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> May package names contain hyphen (-)?
> Package or distribution? Package, no because it has to be a valid
> Python identifier. Distribution, I'm not sure - there are funny rules
> to allow for things like parsing dist-info directory names, or egg
> filenames, unambiguously. One of the packaging PEPs would probably
> answer this one.
>
> Paul.

In package/module names, as Paul said, you can't use hyphens.

About project names, currently, the draft PEP recommends
using the same value for distributed module/package name
and for project name.
The consequence is: PEP 8 applies to project names too,
which means "no hyphens" in project names (and many other
rules).
The exception is the dot symbol, required to create
namespace packages.

Benoit