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Re:An analysis of module names inside top PyPI packages by doctorpangloss on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @08:23PM (#40932763)
On the one hand, you could say it's a security issue, an installed Python package can make any module names importable, which would have surprising effects if say, it overwrote stuff like aiohttp or your postgres client or whatever.

On the other hand, you know, it's already source code, it can do whatever it wants...

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