[Distutils] wxPython and wx

[Yuval Greenfield]

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>

It wasn't easy figuring out I needed to type "sudo pip uninstall wx" to fix
wx. A python beginner would have had a terrible time with this.

I realize we don't want to start squat-wars. But pypi's wx is a 5 liner
that absolutely no person would ever want installed. At the least, pip
should warn me when I install "wx" that it's probably not what I'm looking
for.

Yuval
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