P – Dead Simple Interactive Python Version Management(github.com)
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P – Dead Simple Interactive Python Version Management
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What use cases would this be useful for? Presumably most developers are using tox or virtualenvwrapper to control their python version
I wrote about this in the FAQ (https://github.com/qw3rtman/p#faqs), but I'll reiterate the main use case below.
p is for the average Python developer who just needs to work with a different version of Python. Suppose one wants to start using the latest development release of Python; they just run `p latest` and p will take care of the rest.
`p` is a wrapper that handles and manages everything for you, simplifying the process for those who aren't familiar with tox or virtualenvwrapper. :)
p is for the average Python developer who just needs to work with a different version of Python. Suppose one wants to start using the latest development release of Python; they just run `p latest` and p will take care of the rest.
`p` is a wrapper that handles and manages everything for you, simplifying the process for those who aren't familiar with tox or virtualenvwrapper. :)
Came here to ask the same question. Under archlinux python 3 is the default, which breaks scripts who don't specify that their are python 2 only and start with #!/usr/bin/python and not #!/usr/bin/python2. But even there as user I don't see the need for this tool.
Commented above as a reply to @calpaterson; I'll paste the same comment below.
> I wrote about this in the FAQ (https://github.com/qw3rtman/p#faqs), but I'll reiterate the main use case below.
> p is for the average Python developer who just needs to work with a different version of Python. Suppose one wants to start using the latest development release of Python; they just run `p latest` and p will take care of the rest.
> `p` is a wrapper that handles and manages everything for you, simplifying the process for those who aren't familiar with tox or virtualenvwrapper. :)
> I wrote about this in the FAQ (https://github.com/qw3rtman/p#faqs), but I'll reiterate the main use case below.
> p is for the average Python developer who just needs to work with a different version of Python. Suppose one wants to start using the latest development release of Python; they just run `p latest` and p will take care of the rest.
> `p` is a wrapper that handles and manages everything for you, simplifying the process for those who aren't familiar with tox or virtualenvwrapper. :)
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At least Ubuntu can also switch the version of what "python" links to via setting a configuration.
How does this interact with pip?
At this point, p makes no attempt to manage pip versions. I have added this feature to the TODO and it will be implemented sometime in the future.
Thanks for the suggestion! :)
Thanks for the suggestion! :)