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by aflukasz 1214 days ago
Slightly tangential, but... one also does not simply `pip download` if one does not want execute code - https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1884.

I wanted to run guarddog on source packages. Only then build them locally and install. Turns out, `pip download` triggers code execution in fetched packages.

Somewhat surprising and in this day and age worth spreading awareness of.