[Tutor] how to install python3.8 using virtualenvwrapper

[Don Jennings]

I’m glad you were able to make progress.

I’ve been using pyenv [1] ever since I read a piece by Jacob Kaplan-Moss about his choice of tools [2]. Recently I replaced pipenv with pyenv-virtualenv [3] and direnv [4] to the mix. It’s the best setup I’ve ever used for managing multiple projects with differing requirements. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention pipx [5] for python command line tools like black, flake8 and awscli.

Best,
Don

[1] https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv
[2] https://jacobian.org/2018/feb/21/python-environment-2018/
[3] https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-virtualenv
[4] https://direnv.net
[5] https://github.com/pipxproject/pipx



> On May 9, 2020, at 1:16 PM, Alex Kleider <akleider at sonic.net> wrote:
> 
> On 2020-05-08 19:14, Alex Kleider wrote:
> 
> - snip -
>> Is it possible to bring in python 3.8 using pip (or some other means)
>> or must I build from source?[1]
>> [1] as described here:
>> https://tecadmin.net/install-python-3-8-ubuntu/
> 
> Not having received any suggestions, I forged ahead with building from source
> and the process turned out to be quite painless.
> The one thing worth mentioning is that attempting to install the package checkinstall results in:
> E: Unable to locate package checkinstall [2]
> ... but everything worked fine without it.
> 
> [2] I could find no documentation anywhere of checkinstall being withdrawn as a package.
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