> On Nov 6, 2015, at 1:33 PM, Ionel Cristian Mărieș <cont...@ionelmc.ro> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote:
>> Currently pip installs a number of commands like ``pip``, ``pipX`` and
>> ``pipX.Y`` where the X and X.Y corresponds to the version of Python that pip
>> is installed into. Pip installs into whatever Python is currently executing 
>> it
>> so this gives some ability to control which version of Python you're 
>> installing
>> into (``pip2.7`` for Python 2.7 etc).
> 
> ​Why not consider having a "pip" launcher?​ Seems the obvious thing to me - 
> python has the "py" launcher on windows and it works great!
> 
> Eg: "pip -3" to launch pip using python3, "pip -3.5" to launch pip using 
> python3.5 - just like the "py" 

Isn't this basically what the third option is?  Just the launcher is also the 
entire program. 
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