[Distutils] The future of invoking pip

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 12:01:37 +0000
Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The one thing that *is* special about pip is that it actually
> *modifies* the Python installation it runs under.

Fortunately, though, if you are running the system pip without having
root privileges activated, it will most certainly fail with a
permission error.

Regards

Antoine.