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If it prevents coding classes and bootcamps from pushing junk onto pypi/npm as an exercise of the class, I'm all for it.

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They should be using test.pypi.org. Sheer laziness on the part of tutors.

New developers can also create genuinely new and useful things, some people (like me) learn by creating (hopefully) useful things as it’s more motivating

You can always leave it on github or some similar service, you don't need to "pollute the global namespace for your pet project"

And yes you can install it from pip, etc from there

But aren’t people meant to be able to push useful things to pip? These developers might not even be new, they might just not talk about it online much, or they could be new but fast learners, so these projects could still be things that many other people want

If it's really useful (and it has users beside the author) yeah, but I wouldn't upload a 30min project just because you feel like it

Pip is already full of crap projects, I don't care if you're a 'fast learner', and you could be clobbering a name (or a similar name) to a more important package

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