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Re:Hypermodern Python by thmzlt on Thursday May 28, 2020 @10:13AM (#23337463)
I wrote a tutorial the other day on using Nix to handle the Python package situation. No need to install Python or even touch pip:

https://thomazleite.com/posts/development-with-nix-python/

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Re:Hypermodern Python by silviogutierrez on Thursday May 28, 2020 @10:56AM (#23338015)
+1 for nix. Nothing comes close. Pain to first learn it though.

But now you have truly deterministic builds.

Well, almost. Don't forget to pin channels.

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Re:Hypermodern Python by zcoyle on Thursday May 28, 2020 @10:28AM (#23337677)
There is also the wonderful poetry2nix project: https://github.com/nix-community/poetry2nix
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