On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com> wrote:
On Nov 13, 2015 12:00 PM, "Alexander Walters" <tritium-list@sdamon.com> wrote:
>
> import pip
> pip.install(PACKAGESPEC)
>
> something like that?This would be extremely handy if it could be made to work reliably... But I'm skeptical about whether it can be made to work reliably. Consider all the fun things that could happen once you start upgrading packages while python is running, and might e.g. have half of an upgraded package already loaded into memory. It's like the reloading problem but even more so.
indeed -- does seem risky.
also, if were are in fantasy land, and want to be really newbie friendly, a new built in:
pip.install(PACKAGESPEC)
with no import required....
-CHB
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