Re: Inconsistency in source package naming for python modules

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

On 07/11/2013 09:07 PM, Stuart Prescott wrote:
> 
>> Oh, I need this pyX package... Let's download it.
> 
> You're using a python module name because you need to import it. If you want 
> to import modules, you want the binary package name; if you want to work on 
> the source package then you need *either* the binary package name or the 
> source package name as others have already pointed out. Knowledge of source 
> package names isn't required.

But if you have py<whatever> (let's say on pypi), then even the binary
package isn't obvious. It could be:
python-py<whatever>

or:
python-<whatever>

I've seen both cases in the archive!

Thomas