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Comment by woodruffw

PyPI still doesn't have this because no packaging ecosystem does. It's impossible to do in the general case if your packaging schema allows arbitrary code execution, which Python (and Ruby, and NPM, and Cargo, etc.) allow.

The closest thing is pattern/AST matching on the package's source, but trivial obfuscation defeats that. There's also no requirement that a package on PyPI is even uploaded with source (binary wheel-only packages are perfectly acceptable).

parent woodruffw 3 years ago

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