Dear fellow #Python developers and packagers: if someone on PyPI has already picked up a name that you really really wanted for your module, is it too much to ask not to retaliate by picking a name that will make things very confusing and ambiguous forever for anyone who tries to use either of the modules?

In particular, if someone picked the name foo already, can you please refrain from naming your package python-foo?

Otherwise we keep getting absurd situations like multipart and python-multipart.

And then, because of the most common naming convention for Python packages distributed by pacman, apt, yum etc., this translates into crazy things like python-multipart and python-python-multipart.

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