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I like the name. Maybe this should be merged into requests at some point?

Do you speak Dutch? It's like the Python Zeep (SOAP - API protocol) client is Dutch for soap, Opnieuw is Dutch for again.

I always wandered if that was a nod to Guido Van Rossum that people like naming python packages in Dutch?

Channable is a Dutch company, and a lot of people who work here speak Dutch. I don't remember where we got it from but it is possibly a nod to Zeep.

I joked that we should name our library such that you would have to do

  from driemaal import scheepsrecht

"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch."

-- Tim Peters, The Zen of Python

O:-)

I believe at least one of the contributors to Opnieuw is Dutch.

No, but I speak Afrikaans, which is closely related to Dutch. So "opnieuw" is easily understood. In Afrikaans it would be "weer" (or "weer oor").

Most English names are already taken on PyPI. Using another language is one way to get around it.

We did an internal naming competition for the library and one of the suggestions was "retreitz - Retries for humans".

En jullie hebben een kantoor in Utrecht! Gezellig.

(And you have an office in Utrecht! Cozy.)

So that's why you guys speak Dutch anyway!