simple-salesforce 和 simple_salesforce 有什么区别？

Question

https://pypi.org/project/simple-salesforce/

https://github.com/simple-salesforce/simple-salesforce

The project is called simple-salesforce but the import is from simple_salesforce or I'm missing something?

This means that i do pip install simple-salesforce and in my code I do import simple_salesforce ? How does it work? How python knows to do the link between simple-salesforce to simple_salesforce ?

Answer 1

"simple-salesforce" is the name of the module, but since "-" character is an operator in python, they could not use it in variable name, and had to replace it with underscore.

https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_variables.asp

Answer 2

The package name for pip is simple-salesforce . The module installed is called simple_salesforce (do note that the other spelling would be invalid for python because of the - ). Python doesn't know the link, pip does. Python only looks for a module called simple_salesforce in the configured search locations and imports it, the pip package name is completely irrelevant to python itself (eg, see package opencv-python that installs module cv2 )