MCP Python SDK package naming confusion trips up server developers
Mr_Unknown_Hero · reddit · 2026-10-26
A Reddit developer reports confusion building an MCP server in Python: the official modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk docs say to install mcp[cli], but that didn't work in practice and plain mcp was required, while similarly named packages add noise. The thread highlights immature packaging/docs in the MCP Python ecosystem (SDK has 25k stars).
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