[Distutils] The future of invoking pip

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Wed Nov 11 07:06:30 EST 2015


On 11 November 2015 at 06:35, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Windows Python 2 installations require manual PATH modifications
> regardless, but it's more common for people to know how to make
> "python -m pip install X" work, than it is for them to remember to
> also add the "Scripts" directory needed to make "pip install X" work.

... and "py -m pip install X" works without any PATH modification on
all Windows systems with the launcher installed (I can't recall if
it's included with Python 2.7 - but if not, maybe it should be
backported? There's a standalone version people can get as well).

Paul


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