Re:PEP 704 – Require virtual environments by default for pac...
by PaulHoule on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @08:57AM
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I like activate setting the path. “python3”, “pip3” is the best idea anyone ever got since Solomon suggested cutting a baby in half.
I mean, soon it becomes “python3.5” (don’t really try that one!), “python3.6”, “python3.7”, “python3.8”, and maybe “python3.9-pypi” and who knows what else.
If the noobs you are pandering are too lazy to create a venv, they will never be able to change your script that says
pip3.12.8a-lyrical-magical install xyzyzy
To match pip3.14q or whatever version they are running. With the venv you are much closer to a write-once, run-anywhere situation for writing Python backed and supporting scripts.
I mean, soon it becomes “python3.5” (don’t really try that one!), “python3.6”, “python3.7”, “python3.8”, and maybe “python3.9-pypi” and who knows what else.
If the noobs you are pandering are too lazy to create a venv, they will never be able to change your script that says
To match pip3.14q or whatever version they are running. With the venv you are much closer to a write-once, run-anywhere situation for writing Python backed and supporting scripts.