The rinds of the Cheese Shop menu

Some fun archaeology and digging around into the dark and weird corners of PyPI. I, for one, didn't realise that "Kenneth Reitz" is a perfectly valid version number! :-)

&gt; <i>There are 16 versions on PyPI which end in a newline character. Of these 16, 12 have registered the stripped equivalent too ... Visually, on PyPI, these look identical</i><p>I often navigate through package versions in the PyPI website, and seeing something like this would have driven me nuts!

&gt; A PyPI package version doesn’t have to be strictly numeric – they’re usually in the form 1.2.3 or similar, sometimes with characters appended to indicate alpha, beta, dev or release candidate, but they can be any string.<p>Wait... they don&#x27;t have to be valid semver? How in the world does resolution work?

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This is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for submitting it, OP.