[Distutils] The future of invoking pip

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 11:16:56 +0000
Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9 November 2015 at 10:44, Wolfgang Maier
> <wolfgang.maier at biologie.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> >
> > Something I miss in all the discussions taking place here is the fact that
> > python -m pip is the officially documented way of invoking pip at
> > https://docs.python.org/3/installing/index.html#basic-usage and it is not
> > particularly helpful if that recommendation keeps changing back and forth.
> >
> > I know some people don't like the wordy invocation, but other people
> > (including me) use and teach it because it works reliably. Just because a
> > pip executable based invocation pattern looks better, I don't think it
> > justifies the change.
> 
> I also teach this invocation. Somehow you have to select the Python
> version you're interested in and I really don't see why

"Selecting the Python version you're interested in", in many cases, is
done /a priori/ by activating the appropriate environment (whether
virtualenv-, pyvenv- or conda-based).

When I'm using a conda environment I certainly don't want to type
"python -m pip" when "pip" is sufficient.

It would be nice if people here could acknowledge the diversity of
existing workflows.

Regards

Antoine.