I use a small shell script I wrote in jest a year ago (https://github.com/senko/pvp https://github.com/senko/pvp), it boils down to virtualenv and pip, and it b

I use a small shell script I wrote in jest a year ago (https://github.com/senko/pvp https://github.com/senko/pvp), it boils down to virtualenv and pip, and it basically solves all Python package management issues for me. I was burned by pipenv before (naively trying to use it because a certain prominent member of Python community hyped it up, and I hadn't known he'd gone off the rails). I can find no redeeming qualities to it whatsoever, and it scarred me enough that I don't want to touch other newer tools (poetry, pdm, whatever) with a 10ft pole. I find solace in pip and virtualenv just working and not trying to be too clever. I pin all my immediate reqs, and if there's a conflict with indirect deps (which happened maybe once or twice), I figure out the version I need and pin that manually. For packaging I rely on specialized tools that do just that (build, twine), and don't need one-with-everything spaceship of a tool. I also develop in Node and have suffered much more grief by npm. I lost count of the number of times where I had to rm-rf node modules and npm cache, rerun and hope for the best.