Oct. 31, 2017
1:12 a.m.
It's not 100% clear to me how my proposal below would work within a
Jupyter Notebook, so that would also be an angle worth looking into.
I'm -1 on this as I view it as a tooling issue, not a language issue. Agreed. And for the tool at hand, the notebook already controls the python interpreter— it could have a “package installer” that you could run from the notebook, but NOT with python code in the notebook. If the Jupyter developers though it as a good idea. I also wouldn't want to tie Python-the-language to pip-the-tool so tightly. Exactly, I really wouldn’t want my students pip installing stuff from side the REPL in the conda-based environment I’ve set up for them.... -CHB