PyPi Module Removal

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Tue Sep 3 22:28:18 EDT 2013


On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 16:15:07 -0400, Brian Rak wrote:

> I was trying to install wxPython earlier today.  Not RTFMing, I tried
> 'easy_install wx', which ended up installing this strange module:
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wx
> 
> Looking at the download stats, it seems to be confusing ~1000 users a
> month, while not providing any significant functionality.

Ah, Unix users. Who else would imagine that the way to install something 
called "wxPython" was to use "install wx"?

:-)



-- 
Steven



More information about the Python-list mailing list