Python in the Windows 10 May update

Re:Python in the Windows 10 May update by neuland on Friday June 07, 2019 @12:15PM (#20126091)

Well, I don't have that attitude. Lately, I push beginners towards repl.it so that they don't need to install anything or setup an IDE. There, each script/program is completely separate. So it avoids this issue entirely. Then, when they're a bit more familiar with programming, they can transition to a good local environment like PyCharm or some other setup that manages python versions, virtualenvs, etc.

What I'm saying is that bundling a specific Python interpreter and separate package environment should be the default. I'm not sure what it'd take to get there for a vanilla python install. But more system-level interpreters is not it.

Currently, the way I know of to do that is pyenv [0]. And I know PyCharm let's you pick a python version when you start a project (though I don't use pycharm so that may not be true anymore).

[0] https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv

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Re:Python in the Windows 10 May update by acomjean on Friday June 07, 2019 @04:01PM (#20128044)

I use pyenv, (mostly because its the first one I found).

though ironically in a very unpythonic way there are a bunch of these python environment creators. (conda, virulenv , pipenv....)

pycharm lets you select you favorite, which is pretty nice.

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Re:Python in the Windows 10 May update by thomasjudge on Friday June 07, 2019 @04:43PM (#20128445)

...which drives me nuts. I need the equivalent of a dummies guide to tell me which one to pick. obxkcd: https://xkcd.com/1987/

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Re:Python in the Windows 10 May update by NikkiA on Friday June 07, 2019 @06:02PM (#20129005)

`python3 -mvenv` is the obvious true way

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