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

[Brendan Barnwell]

On 2017-11-12 05:18, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> * the `pip install` option really is nicer looking than `python -m pip
> install`, and it only has actual problems in the presence of multiple
> Python versions and when upgrading pip itself on Windows (plus: lots
> of third party guides recommend it, as do pypi.org project pages)

	Is there any *advantage* to using `pip install` instead of `python -m 
install`?  If not, could we at least change everything under Python/pip 
control (e.g., pip documentation) to never recommend `pip` and always 
recommend `python -m pip` instead, and encourage all third-party 
documentation to always use `python -m pip` and never use `pip`? 
Obviously this isn't a full solution, but in the end there's no way we 
change external third-party documentation, which will always eventually 
become outdated.  Absent that, it seems worthwhile to regularize 
existing official documentation.

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Brendan Barnwell
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