On Jan 22, 2014, at 9:29 AM, Warren Postma <[email protected]> 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 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig 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. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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