Yeah, it's definitely painful. Over the years, I've probably spent in excess of 100 hours on understanding pip, venv, PYTHONPATH, poetry/pdm, pipfile, pyenv, ..

Yeah, it's definitely painful. Over the years, I've probably spent in excess of 100 hours on understanding pip, venv, PYTHONPATH, poetry/pdm, pipfile, pyenv, ... still barely understand how it all works together. https://peps.python.org/pep-0723/ https://peps.python.org/pep-0723/ might make life much simpler for single-script applications.