[Distutils] Proposal: Restrict the characters in a project name

[Eric V. Smith]

On 05/15/2013 07:10 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:
>>>> Anyone want to run a scan over the PyPI package set to see
>>>> how many packages would cause problems for a "[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]"
>>>> only filter?
>>> 
>>> See my previous email where I did queries against my local DB.
>>> It's 225 total projects that wouldn't be allowed.
>> 
>> Can you send the list of those projects?
>> 
>> Eric.
>> 
> 
> Here you go https://gist.github.com/dstufft/5583225 used a Python
> oneliner and the PyPI API so others can reproduce easily if they
> wish.

Perfect. Thanks.

It looks like space causes most of the issues. I'm not sure how
"Twisted Flow >= 1.0" would be expected to parse.

Eric.