The perils of multiple Pythons

justin walters walters.justin01 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 30 16:22:11 EDT 2018


On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 10:32 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 3:30 AM, Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com>
> wrote:
> > On 4/30/18 1:15 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >>
> >> https://xkcd.com/1987/
> >>
> >> So.... take-away is: On a Mac, just use Homebrew.
> >>
> >> (Cue the angry hordes telling me how wrong I am.)
> >>
> >
> > My take-away (though not really, since I held this view before this
> > morning): pick a way and stick to it.
>
> Well, yes. Until that way stops working, in which case you have to try
> another way. And that's when the problems start...
>
> ChrisA
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I feel like this problem is pretty handily solved by virtual environments.
Also, if a single project requires all of this,
perhaps Python isn't the best choice for the project.



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