[Python] 17.0.0 wrongly installs multiple stray directories into site-packages #43299
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$ pip install pyarrow
Collecting pyarrow
Downloading pyarrow-17.0.0-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl.metadata (3.3 kB)
Collecting numpy>=1.16.6 (from pyarrow)
Using cached numpy-2.0.0-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl.metadata (60 kB)
Downloading pyarrow-17.0.0-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl (39.9 MB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 39.9/39.9 MB 11.0 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Using cached numpy-2.0.0-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (19.0 MB)
Installing collected packages: numpy, pyarrow
Successfully installed numpy-2.0.0 pyarrow-17.0.0
$ ls .venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/
benchmarks examples numpy-2.0.0.dist-info pip pyarrow scripts
cmake_modules numpy numpy.libs pip-24.1.2.dist-info pyarrow-17.0.0.dist-info
Note that it wrongly installed benchmarks, cmake_modules, examples and scripts as top-level Python packages.
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