The newly approved Python Enhancement Proposal 751 gives Python a standard lock file format for specifying the dependencies of projects. Here’s the what, why, and when.

This package, too, mimicked the name of a popular Python library, named "colorama." According to the PyPI Stats service , 54 users had downloaded the package a month before it was taken down.

A 15-year-old vulnerability in the open source Python programming language is still finding its way into live code, with the result that over 350,000 projects are at risk of potential supply chain ...