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When I started using Redis, Redis was a true open source project. There was no company yet.

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.

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

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

And 3. Off by one errors.

You can’t do that and expect it to be used. When someone needs a redis client library they search for ‘redis’ not ‘thingamabob’.

Lots of projects do it. I look at starts and update frequencies. My toml parser is called taplo, for example.

Since search isn't limited to names, but includes description, they will still find it

All true, but lets be honest: For the technical users searching a library, nothing beats having The Keyword being part of the name.