Ask HN: What small library or tool do you want that doesn’t exist?

Re:Ask HN: What small library or tool do you want that doesn... by moffkalast on Monday May 02, 2022 @06:54AM (#31233524)

Not practical when you need something like ROS with rospy that needs to be global.

Python is putting its fingers in its ears singing "LALALALA USE A VENV" instead of fixing the damn ecosystem. Node and npm proved that a solution exists and it's doable.

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Re:Ask HN: What small library or tool do you want that doesn... by CrispinS on Monday May 02, 2022 @10:06AM (#31235273)

There's a PEP for adding support for a __pythonpackages__ directory, similar to node_modules.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0582/

Unfortunately the PEP is from 2018 and is still being discussed. The last post in the comment thread is from February.

https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-582-python-local-packages-d...

That's unfortunate; until I went looking for citations I thought it was further along and actually scheduled for the next Python release.

Looks like there is a pip-alternative that implements the PEP, but I haven't played around with it yet.

https://pdm.fming.dev/

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