Python is a prevalent programming language and has a vast collection of packages on Python Package Index (pypi.org) that allow developers to build their code conveniently. Many of these packages can be installed and updated by the well-known “pip install” command. However, many developers may take the updating and installation process for granted and may neglect to check what might have changed in the packages. I was recently alerted to such a particular post on Reddit [1], [2], and I decided to dive deeper to investigate the issue.
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