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, only sdists)
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 is it's
Fellow core developer and Canadian, Mariatta [https://twitter.com/mariatta],
asked on Twitter about python -m pip and who told her about that idiom along
with asking for a reference explaining it:
> I
A co-worker of mine attended a technical talk about how Go's module mirror
[https://proxy.golang.org/] works and he asked me whether there was something
there that Python should do.
> Best technical
If you have ever looked at a project that has a lot of wheels
[https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/] (like numpy
[https://pypi.org/project/numpy/#files]), you may have wondered