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The Socket Research Team breaks down a malicious wrapper package that uses obfuscation to harvest credentials and exfiltrate sensitive data.
python-geoip is a library that provides access to GeoIP databases. Currently it only supports accessing MaxMind databases. It's similar to other GeoIP libraries but comes under the very liberal BSD license and also provides an extra library that optionally ships a recent version of the Geolite2 database as provided by MaxMind.
Documentation is available at http://pythonhosted.org/python-geoip/
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Provides GeoIP functionality for Python.
We found that python-geoip demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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