[Distutils] What does it mean for Python to "bundle pip"?

Antoine Pitrou antoine at python.org
Tue Aug 20 16:23:40 CEST 2013


Paul Moore <p.f.moore <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> That's not how get-pip is being proposed. It will run automatically on 
> installation of Python. If it were manually run, *and* if a --user flag was
> included, then you would be correct.

+1 for providing a "--user" flag to "python -m getpip". It is important to be
able to install things without root access, and without having to create a venv.

Regards

Antoine.




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