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(Disclosure: I’m one of the PEP authors.) I want to clarify a point since many comments seem to go “I do container/Nix/virtualenv so this is not a problem”. Tha

(Disclosure: I’m one of the PEP authors.) I want to clarify a point since many comments seem to go “I do container/Nix/virtualenv so this is not a problem”. That’s absolutely correct, nothing will ever go wrong if you do any of those things. This is a solved problem. But there are a significant number of people that do not do any of these and insist on installing things into the system-provided Python and expect smooth sailing. This is the “problem” for pip and distro maintainers, and what this PEP aims to solve, to guide people toward one of those solutions.

disgruntledphd2 5y ago
Thank you for your work on this! Some context, I'm a data scientist who grew up with R, and run Linux. When attempting to learn Python, this kept causing me massive problems as I'd have a weird mixture of system installed and pip installed packages. I think it probably stopped me from really getting into Python for 1-2 years. So, I think this work is really, really important and I'm really glad someone is working on it.