On Sat, Jan 13, 2018, at 12:06, Christian Heimes wrote: > Hi, > > PEP 370 [1] was my first PEP that got accepted. I created it exactly one > decade and two days ago for Python 2.6 and 3.0. Back then we didn't have > virtual environment support in Python. Ian Bicking had just started to > create the virtualenv project a couple of months earlier. > > Fast forward 10 years... > > Nowadays Python has venv in the standard library. The user-specific > site-packages directory is no longer that useful. I would even say it's > causing more trouble than it's worth. For example it's common for system > script to use "#!/usr/bin/python3" shebang without -s or -I option. > > I propose to deprecate the feature and remove it in Python 4.0.
Where would pip install --user put packages, and how would one run scripts that require those packages? Right now these things Just Work; I've never had to learn how to use virtual environments. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
