On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 12:09:28 -0800, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Nov 13, 2015 12:00 PM, "Alexander Walters" <tritium-l...@sdamon.com> > wrote: > > > > import pip > > pip.install(PACKAGESPEC) > > > > something like that? > > This would be extremely handy if it could be made to work reliably... But > I'm skeptical about whether it can be made to work reliably. Consider all > the fun things that could happen once you start upgrading packages while > python is running, and might e.g. have half of an upgraded package already > loaded into memory. It's like the reloading problem but even more so.
If I remember correctly, this is something that R supports that I thought was cool when I saw it. We could have a command analogous to the 'help' command, so you wouldn't even have to do an explicit import. But yeah, making it work may be hard. --David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
