[Python-ideas] Looking for input to help with the pip situation

Michel Desmoulin desmoulinmichel at gmail.com
Fri Nov 10 01:56:40 EST 2017



Le 07/11/2017 à 22:26, Paul Moore a écrit :
> On 7 November 2017 at 20:38, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 5:04 AM, Thomas Jollans <tjol at tjol.eu> wrote:
>>>
>>> As Ivan said earlier, perhaps the Windows installers should provide a
>>> "python3" executable, so "python3 -m pip" works everywhere.
>>
>> absolutely! I really, really thought it did!!!! (I'm amazed I never heard
>> from a single student getting bit by that...)
> 
> On Windows, use py -X.Y to select the exact version of Python you
> want. Maybe Unix should have a launcher like this, too? It doesn't
> really need to be any more complex than
> 
> <grab the -X.Y argument>
> exec pythonX.Y $@

That's my whole point. We should find a way to unify each of those issues.


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