[Python-ideas] from __pip__ import

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Tue Sep 20 16:59:14 EDT 2016


On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 4:58 AM, אלעזר <elazarg at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think that combining user convenience and security considerations, there
> should be some way to invoke a GUI version of pip with flashing screen
> asking for permissions to install the library. In situations where
> interaction with the user is not trivial (i.e. when you don't have GUI
> accessible) we can assume that the user is knowledgeable enough to install
> the dependencies by herself. The import statement will be self explanatory
> in this case.

There have been talks of linking pip with Idle, which might do what
you want. I don't know how that has progressed, but it'd be something
to look into.

ChrisA


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