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by jwilk • 3 years ago

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apelapan• 3 years ago

This would be a very welcome addition to Python packaging!

Since . is already used for the package-level namespacing and is currently a forbidden character in PYPI package-names, that seems like the perfect separator.

Instead of doing `pip install mycorp-foo`, and then `import mycorp.foo`, you'd do `pip install com.mycorp.foo` and have an import statement that matches perfectly!

di• 3 years ago

Periods are not prohibited in package names, they're just uncommon (e.g., https://pypi.org/project/zope.sqlalchemy/)

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