On 6 November 2017 at 16:47, Michel Desmoulin <desmoulinmic...@gmail.com> wrote: > I really want some people from this list to discuss here so we can find > a way to either unify a bit the way we install and use pip, or find a > way to express a tutorial that always works for people on the most > popular platforms and spread the word so that any doc uses it.
https://docs.python.org/3/installing/#basic-usage is as close as we've been able to get to that for the time being. For Linux, you'll still need to do the initial "python3 -m venv" to get your students out of the system Python. I expect you'll also need an initial "py -m venv" for Windows users, to get their PATH configured appropriately with both a "python" command and any scripts they install from PyPI. But the key point: do *NOT* try to teach without creating a virtual environment as the first step, because it doesn't actually make anything simpler, and in fact makes a lot of things harder and more platform dependent. The tutorial in the Python Packaging User Guide similarly starts with venv creation: https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/installing-packages/#creating-virtual-environments Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
