On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote:
> Perhaps a better idea would be to add some smarts to the REPL (but not to > Python itself) that would detect something like: > >>>> pip install > > And print a better error message that gives a better indication about what’s > gone wrong besides a SyntaxError? I've that for IPython: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip_magic It need to be loaded explicitly, but I'm[1] considering making it enabled by default. We're more and more encountering users that are confused with installing form within the shell; More and more users are in a Python REPL[2] long before even knowing what a shell command line is and how to get one. Worse they can choose environment in a dropdown, so having to tell them they need to activate the env to install things make no sens for them. I think a 'pip install', or whatever else that could hook into the thing to install package (like something that conda could set to theirown thing) would be great. A message like "You might need to restart your Python interpreter for changes to be taken into account" seem enough to C.Y.A and would get us 90% there. -- M [1] I think other dev agree with me. [2] in a notebook most of the time _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
