On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 20:29:52 -0500 Jonathan Goble <jcgob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I can't speak for distributors or maintainers [1], but I can speak for > myself as a user. I run Debian testing (currently bullseye as that is > preparing for release) as my daily OS on my personal laptop, used for > personal matters and school assignments (I'm a university computer > science student in my senior year). > > I don't use the system Python for anything of my own, whether it's a > school assignment or a personal project, precisely because I don't > want to risk screwing something up. Rather, I maintain a clone/fork of > the official CPython GitHub repo, and periodically build from source > and `make altinstall` into `~/.local/`.
For the record, instead of building Python by hand, you could use a distribution such as Anaconda or the community-maintained conda-forge. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/3TXDWMNBTQLCSEEG5XKMPJHJJQ4BRWWF/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
