On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Amirouche Boubekki <amirouche.boube...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd like to use Python 3.5 or Python 3.6 in production but avoid the use of > pip and virtualenv. > > Is there a solution based on a popular GNU/Linux distribution that allows > to keep up with the release of Python 3.x and various other highly prolific > project but still young like aiohttp? > > What I am looking for is the ability to have reproducible builds in the > form of lxc templates (or maybe somekind of docker magic) but without the > need to maintain another package repository. > > I hope my question is clear.
I generally build the very latest from source control. (Presumably it'll be the same if you get a .tar.gz archive, but I haven't tested it.) Either way, you'll generally do something like this: $ sudo apt build-dep python3 $ ./configure $ make $ sudo make install and that should give you a fully working Python. And here's the thing: for a modern Python, "fully working" includes having pip available. I'm not sure what the advantage is of avoiding pip, but if your idea is to avoid trampling on the system Python, the easiest way is to use the inbuilt venv (rather than the third-party virtualenv) and use that. To keep up with projects like aiohttp, you're either going to need to use pip, or you're going to install them manually. I strongly recommend the former. $ python3 -m venv env $ source env/bin/activate $ pip install aiohttp That's usually the safest way to do things IMO. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list