I am going to admit upfront that this is a thought piece, a brain dump, me
thinking out loud. Do not assume there is a lesson here, nor some goal I have in
Recently on Twitter there was a maintainer of a Python project who had a couple
of bugs filed against their project due to builds failing (this particular
project doesn't provide wheels,
When people start learning Python, they often will come across a package they
want to try and it will usually start with "just pip install it!" The problem
with that advice
Fellow core developer and Canadian, Mariatta, asked on Twitter about python -m pip and who told her about that idiom along with asking for a reference explaining it:
I learned sometime ago that
Someone emailed the steering council recently to ask what it was like to be on
it, presumably because nominations will be opening next month
[https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-committers@python.org/