[Distutils] wxPython and wx

[Lennart Regebro]

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Yuval Greenfield <ubershmekel at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wanted to install wx and tried to "sudo pip install wx". Sadly this
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wx module described as "my first python module,
> like php file_get_contents" shadowed the wxpython I eventually installed
> with "sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk2.8".
>
> Can we remove that package from pypi? Preferably with the author's consent.

Packages are allowed to have the same module names as other packages.
In this case it's a bit unfortunate, but it should reasonably have
been quickly solved by uninstalling the wx package?

//Lennart