[Distutils] conventions or best practice to choose package names?

[Paul Moore]

On 29 June 2012 15:34, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> May package names contain hyphen (-)?

Package or distribution? Package, no because it has to be a valid
Python identifier. Distribution, I'm not sure - there are funny rules
to allow for things like parsing dist-info directory names, or egg
filenames, unambiguously. One of the packaging PEPs would probably
answer this one.

Paul.