[Python-Dev] Standard library vs Standard distribution?

[Michael Selik]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 5:48 PM Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> There have been significant improvements in pip, pypi and the whole
> packaging ecosystem in recent years thanks to the efforts of many
> including Paul. I've been pushing students and others to Anaconda
> simply because I knew that at minimum they would need numpy, scipy and
> matplotlib and that pip would fail to install those. That has changed
> in the last year or two: it is now possible to pip install binaries
> for those packages and many others on the 3 major OSes. I don't see
> any reason to recommend Anaconda to my students now.
>

One advantage of conda over pip is avoidance of typosquatting on PyPI.


It's not a huge problem for my students but I think an important thing
> missing from all of this is a GUI for pip. The situation Paul
> described is that you can instruct someone to install Python using the
> python.org installer but cannot then instruct them to use pip from a
> terminal and I can certainly relate to that. If installing Python gave
> you a GUI from the programs menu that could install the other pieces
> that would be a significant improvement.
>

I haven't checked in about a year, but the Windows installer from python.org
wouldn't set the PATH such that python or pip were not valid executables at
the DOS prompt. Fixing that one (simple?) thing would also be a significant
improvement.
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