Today I have renamed the Python binding for Upskirt, Pantyshot, to Misaka. Yesterday and today I received some messages from people who had a problem with the name I chose for my Python package. And I also found out that Steve Holden wrote a blogpost about it.

I chose the name, because I thought it was funny. I also talked to some people to check if it wasn’t offensive or plain weird (they thought it was funny too). The name followed the same theme as the library I used, Upskirt. I did not mean to cause people problems with the name I had chosen.

It surprised me was that people who had problems with the name didn’t contact me about it. Instead I saw the blogpost after someone emailed me about it. And after I commented on that blogpost I received two more messages.

In response to the last two messages I changed the name as soon as possible. And everything is alright now and both sides learned something. I should not let my perverted mind create project names and think how it might influence other people. And the other people should now know that they should communicate directly about problems.

Tags: Python Markdown Upskirt C Misaka