On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote: > IIUC, it is perfectly legitimate to do install into --user to override system- > wide installed modules. Thus, I should be able to do: > > pip install --user --up blah > > even though there is already a package blah in > /usr/lib/pythonxxx/site_packages/... ... > Can we please fix this?
Sounds like a job for a bug report (for pip, most likely), not so much a post to comp.lang.python. What happens if you omit --upgrade? Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list