How it works in the terminal is less important to me than how it works in IDLE though; being able to teach how to use Python through IDLE (deferring discussion of terminals etc) is useful for introductory programming classes. Personally, I don't use IDLE for teaching, but do use iPython. But if we have a way to call pip from a Python REPL, it really should work in the standard REPL. Though still a good idea to have IDLE specific and iPython specific ways to install packages within those environments. I like the
%pip Idea for iPython -- and I'm pretty sure the kernel can be restarted. Certainly in a notebook. As for the plain REPL, maybe a warning that you need to restart after an upgrade would be enough. Though I suspect that Window's aggressive file locking will put the kibosh on in-place upgrades :) CHB -- Oscar _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
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