One thing that simply HAS to happen in order to put a stop to typosquatting and related errors: FFS, package maintainers should be forced to have the name of the package on the repository be the same as the main import name.
Quick, Python programmers, how do you find the current version of Beautiful Soup? How do you import it? How about Scikit-Learn?*
Those are two of the most important packages on the ecosystem, and they make you guess as to what the actual name is. STUPID. STUPID. STUPID.
Quick, Python programmers, how do you find the current version of Beautiful Soup? How do you import it? How about Scikit-Learn?*
Those are two of the most important packages on the ecosystem, and they make you guess as to what the actual name is. STUPID. STUPID. STUPID.
* Answers: pip install beautifulsoup4, import bs4; pip install scikit-learn, import sklearn