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[Marcus Smith]

btw, see this thread from last year about squatters and naming...
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2013-June/021010.html


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

>
> On Jan 22, 2014, at 9:29 AM, Warren Postma <warren.postma at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Today I ran across something that made me go "wat?".   There is a package
> named wx in PyPI and pip happily installs it.
> It's completely useless, the module doc string is not in english, and it's
> definitely not wxPython.
>
> This has been noticed by others:
>
>
> https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi/issue/62/please-delete-or-rename-the-wx-package
>
> What is the proper channel for asking for the renaming or removal of a
> package?  If this package is indeed useless, then it should be removed. If
> it is useful, but completely undocumented, and appears that import wx
> followed by dir(wx) shows absolutely nothing useful inside it.  This is the
> entire content of the unfortunately named wx.py module:
>
> # -*- coding:utf-8 -*-
>
> """
> 模拟 PHP 函数 file_get_content
> 我的Python测试模块
> """
> def file_get_contents(file):
>     file = open(file)
>     data = ''
>     for line in file:
>       data = data + line
>
>     file.close()
>     return data
>
>
> The last part translated from Translate.google.com<http://translate.google.com/>is "
> My Python test module".
>
> How did this get into PyPI? It's pypi page url is:
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wx/1.0.0
>
> Does anyone have to approve these things before they get into PyPI or can
> any post their hello world programs to PyPi?
>
> Can I write three lines, call it pyQt, and upload it? that particular four
> letter name is unclaimed, yet I bet most pip users would like it if it gave
> them an error rather than installing some package which is not PyQt, it is
> just called that.
>
> Warren
>
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> Names on PyPI are on a first come first serve basis although we do
> exercise administrative control when deemed appropriate. It’s possible this
> name should be taken over, I’d want to leave that up to Richard.
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