[Attummm]

suffix the language name plus name would give us redis-py.

Which in turn would create the filename redis_py.py

Which would immediately raise the question why not a dot.

redis.py

> There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things.

[wmf]

Lawyers won't allow any of those. It has to be something like Client for Redis™ in Python™.

[amszmidt]

Trademarks don’t (usually) cover file names and function names. See for example the classic GNU Emacs tetris.el debacle…

[mabster]

And 3. Off by one errors.