In teaching my students how to use third-party Python modules, I generally recommend starting every project with "python3 -m venv env", and then install dependencies into the virtual environment. They then need a requirements.txt to keep track of them. There are two workflows for that:
$ pip install flask $ pip freeze >requirements.txt or: $ echo flask >>requirements.txt $ pip install -r requirements.txt Over in the JavaScript world, npm has a much tidier way to do things. I propose adding an equivalent to pip: $ pip install --save flask which will do the same as the second option above (or possibly write it out with a version number as per 'pip freeze' - bikeshed away). As well as cutting two commands down to one, it's heaps easier in the multiple installation case - "pip install --save flask sqlalchemy gunicorn" is much clearer than messing around with creating a multi-line file; and the 'pip freeze' option always ends up listing unnecessary dependencies. Thoughts? ChrisA _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig