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I don't necessarily disagree, although note that this is true for just about every packaging ecosystem: Rust, Ruby, etc. are similar in making no guarantee that

I don't necessarily disagree, although note that this is true for just about every packaging ecosystem: Rust, Ruby, etc. are similar in making no guarantee that the index name is even remotely related to the importable/module name. Python gets the "worst" of it in the sense that it's big and has a large diversity of packages, but it's a general consequence of having a packaging ecosystem that's distinct from a given language's import machinery.

Timon3 2y ago
This is one thing I really, really like about JavaScript - you explicitly import everything from packages using the same name you install them with. When viewing source code without a code editor, many modern languages have no way to know what comes from where. I don't understand why this seems to be the standard for new languages like Rust.