That's not really how Python packages work. Public packages need unique names, mostly because of PyPI, where package names are all on the same namespace. This c

That's not really how Python packages work. Public packages need unique names, mostly because of PyPI, where package names are all on the same namespace. This can cause some interesting problems: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0541/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0541/ Even locally, all packages are supposed to have unique names (though virtualenvs can make things nicer).