On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 12:42 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> But I don't think that running an application from the source without >> installing it is the most common way to run an application. Most users >> install applications to use them, no? > > Scripts are very frequently run without installing them, as are things > like Jupyter Notebooks, so any change along these lines would need to > be carefully planned to avoid being unduly disruptive. >
A single-file script wouldn't be affected; only something that has more than one file "side by side" in an arbitrary directory, and imports one from the other. Do Jupyter notebooks do that? I've no idea how they work under the covers. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
