[Python-ideas] Adding Python interpreter info to "pip install"

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 5:45 PM, Al Sweigart <asweigart at gmail.com> wrote:
> The goal of this idea is to make it easier to find out when someone has
> installed packages for the wrong python installation. I'm coming across
> quite a few StackOverflow posts and emails where beginners are using pip to
> install a package, but then finding they can't import it because they have
> multiple python installations and used the wrong pip.

This sounds like a great idea to me, but pip is developer separately
from python itself, and I don't think the pip maintainers monitor
python-ideas. I'd suggest filing a feature request on the pip tracker:

https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/new?template=feature-request.md

-n

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