I HATE PYTHON
I HATE PYTHON
Posted May 21, 2025 19:05 UTC (Wed) by intelfx (subscriber, #130118)In reply to: I HATE PYTHON by dskoll
Parent article: Recent disruptive changes from Setuptools
> I'm more of a Perl person than a Python person, and Perl happily lets you install both OS packages and packages from CPAN and manages to keep them in separate directories. Why can't Python do this?
Because Python's support for "keep[ing] them in separate directories" is called a venv.
> but the warning from pip3 not to do it is pretty stern
Yes, and rightly so.
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