I don't understand what the author has against requiring a pip install -e . You're requiring contributors to install dependencies anyway. If you're using pyte

I don't understand what the author has against requiring a pip install -e . You're requiring contributors to install dependencies anyway. If you're using pytest (I think the article assumes you're only using the standard library unittest which I wouldn't personally recommend) there is pytest-pythonpath which at least makes this invisible to the user.