[Python-ideas] High time for a builtin function to manage packages (simply)?
Steven D'Aprano
steve at pearwood.info
Sat Sep 5 17:38:01 CEST 2015
On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 04:08:24PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano writes:
>
> > You say "of course", but did you actually look at the python-list
> > archives? If you do, you will see posts like these two within the last
> > 24 hours:
>
> So let's fix it, already![1] Now that we have a blessed package
> management module, why not have a builtin that handles the simple
> cases? Say
>
> def installer(package, command='install'):
> ...
Python competes strongly with R in the scientific software area, and R
supports a built-in to do just that:
https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/utils/html/install.packages.html
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Steve
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