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Naming conflict with python-magic

Open ahupp opened this issue 8 years ago • 2 comments

Hello, I'm the maintainer of the python-magic binding for libmagic. I've had a number of recent bug reports that seem to be due to users accidentally installing python-libmagic instead of python-magic. These packages are not compatible, but both use the magic module name, so their software breaks.

I realize this is a backwards-incompatible change but would you consider changing the name of the module shipped in your package? python-libmagic is widely used, and I'm already trying to work through a similar module naming conflict with the upstream libmagic distribution (apparently the magic name is too nice to pass up!). Thanks,

Adam

ahupp avatar Dec 04 '17 05:12 ahupp

Confirming that it creates some issues -_-

Te-k avatar Jan 26 '21 21:01 Te-k

Searching "libmagic" in google gives this repo as second link, while the much more popular python interface to libmagic https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic is not visible at all. Actually this looks more like a google fail.

Koshmaar avatar Jan 31 '24 23:01 Koshmaar