pythonpackagedependenciescase-sensitive

Best practice to add a case-sensitive Python package as depencency

I need to add the package "modAL" (uppercase AL) as a dependency to a package. Since packages names are (seemingly) case insensitive in pyproject.toml, it falls back to "modal" which is another package.

What is the best way to add modAL and not modal as a depencendy ?

I can install modAL separately (it works), but I want to add it as a regular dependency and I have no clue how to do it.

Solution

  • The comment of juanpa.arrivillega solves my problem:

    "python package names are case insensitive, and on pypi, the "modAL" package seems to be distributed as "modAL-python""

    I just replaced "modAL" by "modAL-python" and it works as expected. Thank you !

    NOTE : Meanwhile I asked ChatGPT which suggested to use Poetry, but I couldn't find the right way to add this dependency line.