Show HN: Bit – A fast and easy Python Bitcoin library

Re:Show HN: Bit – A fast and easy Python Bitcoin library by notthemessiah on Friday March 17, 2017 @11:25AM (#13894661)

Am I the only one annoyed by the name? "Bit" isn't very useful or specific, yet it takes up a pretty big parking space.

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Re:Show HN: Bit – A fast and easy Python Bitcoin library by nerdponx on Friday March 17, 2017 @01:09PM (#13895744)

Agreed. Why not call it "python-bitcoin"?

    pip install python-bitcoin

and

    import bitcoin

would be great. Otherwise the name "Bit" makes me think it's some kind of bit manipulation tools library.

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Re:Show HN: Bit – A fast and easy Python Bitcoin library by bbcbasic on Friday March 17, 2017 @12:48PM (#13895505)

A parking space in ofek's city though. Feel free to call your project bit too.

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Re:Show HN: Bit – A fast and easy Python Bitcoin library by pierrec on Friday March 17, 2017 @02:54PM (#13896841)

That's not really how Python packages work. Public packages need unique names, mostly because of PyPI, where package names are all on the same namespace. This can cause some interesting problems:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0541/

Even locally, all packages are supposed to have unique names (though virtualenvs can make things nicer).

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Re:Show HN: Bit – A fast and easy Python Bitcoin library by nerdponx on Friday March 17, 2017 @01:09PM (#13895747)

If you release software to the public, you run the risk of other people wanting you to use it.

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