A software security engineer has identified 12 Python libraries uploaded on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) that contained malicious code. The 12 packages have been discovered in two separate ...
It's not hard to write a Python package that can be installed into an interpreter or virtual environment with pip. This video shows a simple example of how to lay out a project's source code and set ...
PyPI is popular among Python programmers for sharing and downloading code. Since anyone can contribute to the repository, malware – sometimes posing as legitimate, popular code libraries – can appear ...
Modern Python developers use virtual environments (venvs), to keep their projects and dependencies separate. Managing project dependencies gets more complex as the number of dependencies grows.