After temporarily suspending new user sign-ups and package uploads, the maintainers of the Python Package Index (PyPI), the official repository for open source Python packages, have now restored the registry.
In a notice released on 20th May, the PyPI admins said the number of malicious users and projects created on the index "in the past week" had exceeded their capacity to quickly address. That was...
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