PEP 541 Request: pyquest (Name isn't allowed)

[rrmeister]

Project to be claimed

pyquest: https://pypi.org/project/pyquest

Your PyPI username

rmeister: https://pypi.org/user/rmeister/

Reasons for the request

Our research group has a quantum computing simulation project named QuEST, for which I am writing a Python interface, which we named pyquest. Attempting to upload our project to PyPI results in The name 'pyquest' isn't allowed.

ERROR    HTTPError: 400 Bad Request from https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/
The name 'pyquest' isn't allowed. See https://pypi.org/help/#project-name for more information.

I would like to understand why this name is reserved/prohibited, and wheter it would be possible to release this name as it would closely represent our project.

Maintenance or replacement?

No response

Source code repositories URLs

https://github.com/rrmeister/pyQuEST

All work so far in the develop branch.

Contact and additional research

I could not find any project named pyquest. There is pyquest-cffi which we specifically requested not to be named pyquest as at the time we were still debating implementing a wrapper ourselves, which has now happened.

Code of Conduct

• [x] I agree to follow the PSF Code of Conduct

[yeraydiazdiaz]

Hi @rrmeister, the reason it is not allowed is because it was placed in the prohibited project names list. An @pypa/warehouse-admins should be able to release the name to you.

[ewdurbin]

Project released to rmeister