On 15 November 2017 at 08:22, Nick Coghlan ncoghlan@gmail.com wrote:
On 15 November 2017 at 16:13, Steve Barnes gadgetsteve@live.co.uk wrote:
- "pip -X[.Y][-32|-64] operation ..." tries to find a python matching
-X[.Y][-32|-64] and if it succeeds executes "python -m pip operation ..." with that python, (if it doesn't find a matching python is should fail with a sensible error message and possibly list the valid python specifiers).
This is a genuinely interesting option, especially as `pipenv` has already implemented a feature somewhat akin to this: https://docs.pipenv.org/basics.html#specifying-versions-of-python
`pipenv` also allows `pipenv --two` and `pipenv --three` when setting up your initial virtual environment.
This is an interesting idea for *any* tool that's about "working with Python environments" as opposed to "writing Python code". So pip, virtualenv, tox, pipenv, ... Many of these tools are variously reinventing "tell me which Python environment to work on" options. Having a common way to do this would be really useful. I'm not sure how likely it would be for pip to be able to use it (pip introspects sys.executable to get site-packages, etc), but it's certainly a possibility.
Having a standardised library/wrapper that handles the "select a Python environment" process would be a huge plus. There's https://github.com/zooba/pep514tools which is a start on handling the Windows registry scanning logic, and building on that to include Unix and anything else we needed would be great.
Paul