Easy as PyPI Pie
Posted by Kell van Daal | June 7 2023
Recently PyPI suspended new user sign-ups as well as new project registration, citing the volume of malicious users and malicious projects being created outpacing their ability to respond in a timely fashion. Registrations were closed for a weekend. Python Package Index PyPI is the Python Package Index, a repository of software for the Python programming language. And it's an important destination for developers. It contains many, many packages that developers use so they don't have to "reinvent the wheel" every time they create a new piece of software. Most software uses a lot of functionality that someone else already created and submitted to PyPI. It ranges from basic to very advanced functionality. If you want to create a function that does an API call, do you really also want to program how to setup an HTTPS connection, including certificate checking etc? Of course not, you'll use a commonly used package that already handles all of that. This way developers can focus on the "new
