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June 27, 2024, 11:17 p.m. |

Simon Willison's Weblog simonwillison.net

Python 3.12 change results in Apple App Store rejection


Such a frustrating demonstration of the very worst of Apple's opaque App Store review process. The Python 3.12 standard library urllib package includes the string itms-services, and after much investigation Eric Froemling managed to determine that Apple use a scanner and reject any app that has that string mentioned anywhere within their bundle.

Russell Keith-Magee has a thread on the Python forum discussing solutions. He doesn't think appealing to Apple is …

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