[Distutils] Module Installation Issues

[Steve Dower]

On 13Sep2016 1559, Matthew Brett wrote:
>> Perhaps a better idea would be to add some smarts to the REPL (but not to Python itself) that would detect something like:
>>
>>>>> pip install
>>
>> And print a better error message that gives a better indication about what’s gone wrong besides a SyntaxError?
>
> I was thinking the same thing.  If it could also catch accidental
>
>>>> python3 -m pip install
>
> commands, that would be even better.

I feel like these would deserve text adventure style errors:

 >>> pip install spam
I don't see a pip here

 >>> python
You're already running a Python!

 >>> pip uninstall eggs
You ask nicely, but pip refuses to uninstall from inside this shell.

Cheers,
Steve