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Re:'New' Python modules of 2015 by aw3c2 on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @02:42PM (#10785174)
I love it on Windows but I wonder why you use it on Linux. What does it do better than the alternative (native packages and pip)?
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Re:'New' Python modules of 2015 by infinite8s on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @02:55PM (#10785248)
One word - isolation.

One issue with using your system's packaging system is that a lot of system utilities are written in Python which makes it harder to play around with new versions, bleeding edge libs, etc.

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Re:'New' Python modules of 2015 by destroythecore on Thursday December 24, 2015 @02:20AM (#10787442)
Virtualenv is pretty good for isolation.
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Re:'New' Python modules of 2015 by infinite8s on Friday December 25, 2015 @07:35AM (#10791075)
Not for binary packages, which usually end up requiring libraries installed into /user/local (and let's not get started about the mess that is Python binary deployment on Windows).
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Re:'New' Python modules of 2015 by 0pt1c on Thursday December 24, 2015 @02:28PM (#10789316)
I use pyenv on my Mac https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv
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Re:'New' Python modules of 2015 by nashequilibrium on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @03:17PM (#10785400)
infinite8s beat me to it, exactly what he/she said.
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