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• All lowercase
• Unique on pypi, even if you don’t want to make your package publicly available (you might want to specify it privately as a dependency later)
• Underscore-separated or no word separators at all (don’t use hyphens)

Now we can install the package locally (for use on our system), with:

python setup.py install

For packages under development, we can also install the package with a symlink, so that changes to the source files will be immediately available to other users of the package on our system:

python setup.py develop