Note to readers who enjoy complaining about Python: the title is more bad-sounding than the actual content. It's analogous to how IDNs and IP addresses have no

Note to readers who enjoy complaining about Python: the title is more bad-sounding than the actual content. It's analogous to how IDNs and IP addresses have no single canonical form, but 2 or more equivalent forms that can be parsed. To properly compare two IP addresses, you must parse them and compare the results. The same thing is happening here. It's an interesting problem and maybe an oversight in the design of the wheel name format, but it's not really an instance of "Python bad" the way you might assume based on the title.