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So many different ways to install Python - doesn’t anybody just use the official installer from python.org/downloads?

• qbasic_forever 6y ago
  Python's insistence that it be a system-level utility in one global location, with one global set of libraries, etc. is kind of why we're in this mess of many different ways to install and use python (and the myriad of workarounds like virtual envs, pyenv, pipx, etc.). The official CPython installer is fine for some simple scripting or learning the language, but as soon as you need to tightly control and define multiple different python installs, different versions of libraries, etc. to satisfy different constraints it becomes a huge headache.
  • coldtea 6y ago
    Meanwhile, they could have fixed this shit with 3... had time until 3.4 or so (when few were using it anyway).
• coldtea 6y ago
  People doing first-timer Python classes in school.