Never ever type pip as root. Then there is no risk of messing up the system python by forgetting —user. This strategy works fine on Linux. I haven’t quite got

Never ever type pip as root. Then there is no risk of messing up the system python by forgetting —user. This strategy works fine on Linux. I haven’t quite gotten the hang of doing this on macOS where I forget —user from time to time and bludgeon my Homebrew python.