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There are a lot of #tools and #libraries - in #Python and other languages - that are basically #wrappers around #compiled libraries written in C, C++, or other compiled languages. In general, installing the Python package from a repository declares the binary library package as a #dependency.

A name collision between the Python package and the underlying C library would be problematic. You could argue that a Python library that exposes the functionality of `libfrobnicate`, which is part of the `frobnicate` package, shouldn't itself be called `frobnicate` but something totally different - but people go searching for "Python for Frobnicate" so it's a natural enough name. And therefore the repository maintainers have to make it `python-frobnicate` etc.