Codified in PEP 582, Python allows a __pypackages__ directory to contain version-specific editions of packages that can be imported before packages from the base install of Python, or even a venv.

Editable installs let you do exactly this. To install a Python package in editable mode, all you need to do is use the -e flag, and pass the path to the package’s directory: ...

ESET communicated with PyPI to take action against the remaining ones and all of the known malicious packages are now offline. The full list of 116 packages can be found in our GitHub repository.

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 ...

According to the company, Insight Partners led the investment with participation from Mubadala Capital. Bloomberg reported ...

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.

Multiple code packages were uploaded to the Python Package Index, often abbreviated as PyPI, and were subsequently incorporated into software multiple times from June through this month, Slovakia ...