<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br></div><div>On Nov 6, 2015, at 1:33 PM, Ionel Cristian Mărieș <<a href="mailto:contact@ionelmc.ro">contact@ionelmc.ro</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Donald Stufft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donald@stufft.io" target="_blank">donald@stufft.io</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1sh" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">Currently pip installs a number of commands like ``pip``, ``pipX`` and<br>
``pipX.Y`` where the X and X.Y corresponds to the version of Python that pip<br>
is installed into. Pip installs into whatever Python is currently executing it<br>
so this gives some ability to control which version of Python you're installing<br>
into (``pip2.7`` for Python 2.7 etc).</div></blockquote></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Why not consider having a "pip" launcher? Seems the obvious thing to me - python has the "py" launcher on windows and it works great!<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Eg: "pip -3" to launch pip using python3, "pip -3.5" to launch pip using python3.5 - just like the "py" </div>
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</div></blockquote><br><div>Isn't this basically what the third option is? Just the launcher is also the entire program. </div></body></html>