Spamming PyPI with stupid packages

[Lie Ryan]

On 01/02/2012 09:33 AM, Robert Kern wrote:
> On 1/1/12 10:18 PM, Matt Chaput wrote:
>> Someone seems to be spamming PyPI by uploading multiple stupid
>> packages. Not sure if it's some form of advertising spam or just idiocy.
>>
>> Don't know if we should care though... maybe policing uploads is worse
>> than cluttering PyPI's disk space and RSS feed with dumb 1 KB packages.
>>
>>> girlfriend 1.0.1 10 A really simple module that allow everyone to do
>>> "import girlfriend"
>>> girlfriends 1.0 4 Girl Friends
>>> car 1.0 2 Car, a depended simple module that allow everyone to do
>>> "import girlfriend"
>>> house 1.0 2 House, a depended simple module that allow everyone to do
>>> "import girlfriend"
>>> money 1.0 2 Money, a depended simple module that allow everyone to do
>>> "import girlfriend"
>>> workhard 1.0 2 Keep working hard, a depended simple module that allow
>>> everyone to do "import girlfriend"
>
> I'm betting on a joke, like antigravity only significantly less funny
> and more sexist. The author is a legitimate Python programmer, and the
> links go to his blog where he talks about Python stuff.

Legitimate python programmer or not, that does not legitimize spamming 
PyPI.