# PEP 625: File name of a Source Distribution

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-625-file-name-of-a-source-distribution/4686>\
**Category:** Packaging\
**Created:** [July 8, 2020, 8:19am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-625-file-name-of-a-source-distribution/4686 "2020-07-08T08:19:27Z")\
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For wheels’ metadata directory `{distribution}-{version}.dist-info`, should the PEP 440 distribution part have hyphens replaced by underscores?

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