I'm okay with this. Installing for all users is really something that
could be considered an advanced option rather than the default, especially since the aim (AIUI) of the all-users install is to pretend that Python was shipped with the OS. (I'd kind of like to take that further by splitting
On 10 Mar 2015 02:37, "Donald Stufft" <donald@stufft.io> wrote: things more sensibly between Program Files, Common Files and System32, but there's very little gain from that and much MUCH pain as long as people are still expecting C:\PythonXY installs…)
Maybe the answer is to write up a PEP and standardize the idea of entry
points, specifically the console_scripts and ui_scripts (or whatever it’s called) entrypoints and then give Python something like -m, but which executes a specific entry point name instead of a module name (or maybe -m can fall back to looking at entry points? I don’t know). While I like the idea of offering something more "built in" in this space, my initial inclination is to prefer extending "-m" to accept the "module.name:function.name" format to let you invoke entry points by the name of the target function (Possible API name: runpy.run_cli_function), and then add a "runpy.call" that can be used to call an arbitrary function with positional and keyword string arguments based on sys.argv and (optionally?) print the repr of the result. It wouldn't be a universal panacea (and would need a PEP to work out the exact UX details), but would likely make quite a few libraries more command line accessible without needing to modify them. Cheers, Nick.
I’ve given this like… 30s worth of thought, but maybe:
pip install pygmentize # Implicit —user py -e pygmetize
Is an OK UX for people to have without needing to add the user site bin
directory to their PATH. Maybe it’s a horrible idea and we should all forget I mentioned it :)
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