Chris Withers wrote: > Hi, > > Any chance we could put a block in place on packages that mention this > phrase? > > Has anyone had any joy tracking down the author of the book that > resulted in this avalanche of junk? At the very least they could publish > an errata explaining their horrific mistake...
I'm obviously missing some context here, but there are indeed quite a few copies of seemingly the same module up PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=search&term=simple+printer+of+nested+lists Is it possible that the book used the module to explain creating distutils packages and uploading them to PyPI ? -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Mar 24 2011) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
