Package installers and management tools — pip in the case of Python — have their own internal package selection logic when faced with two packages of the same name from two different defined ...

Using pip is the most conventional and best-supported way to package a Python application for re-use. Just take your application directory and outfit it with a setup.py file, which turns it into a ...

Furthermore, this package doesn’t even try to hide its true intentions, and instead is “openly malicious”. Despite being obvious malware, it still managed to rake in 37,217 downloads.

Both attacks appears to be the work of the same actor Security researchers this week identified two corrupt Python and PHP packages in what appears to be yet another instance of a software supply ...

The "pymafka" package has a name that's very similar to "PyKafka," a popular Apache Kafka client for Python that has been downloaded more than 4.2 million times so far.

But a recently developed package management tool, PDM — short for Python Development Master — lets you install packages to a project using the PEP 582 storage guidelines.

Security researchers have discovered a total of 3938 unique secrets on PyPI, the official third-party package management system for the Python community, across all projects, with 768 of them ...

Python's repository is a frequent target, with researchers finding malicious packages in September 2017; June, July, and November 2021; and June of this year.

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 131, No. 996 (2019 February), pp. 1-13 (13 pages) We present a Python package, pwv_kpno, which provides models for the atmospheric ...