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Re:What the Heck Is Pyproject.toml? by hermitdev on Thursday April 02, 2020 @01:19AM (#22756437)
One can easily install Python without root. You have to build from source and use the --prefix option to, say, install under $HOME. Also helpful to avoid the system Python which usually lags far behind on systems like RHEL.
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Re:What the Heck Is Pyproject.toml? by thw0rted on Friday April 10, 2020 @04:42AM (#22831143)
> "easily"... "build from source"...

You think the school IT department won't let the GP install Python but will let them install a compiler toolchain? The benchmark for "easy" is you download one binary and run it in userspace. Add any additional steps and you can't use that word anymore.

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