I recently ran into a situation where a very old package caused terrible damage.

I contacted the pypi maintainer. He apologized and promised to fix it. Six months later, no changes.

This was a very unusual situation, as the package was the same name as a module later adopted in the standard library.

The author was under the impression the package was literally uninstallable since the code hadn’t been valid Python for over two decades, including the setup script.

Still wish they would delete it.