On 6 November 2017 at 05:00, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5 November 2017 at 18:40, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >> I think typing shouldn't require any extra typing (ha) on Unix either. >> I don't remember what the rationale was for having to type >> "python -m ensurepip" to get pip installed, but typing is just a >> library, not an executable tool that may be able to mess with the >> system state, so I don't think it's worthwhile introducing an extra >> step for it. > > Yes, I agree. I didn't realise that "give me pip" was an extra step on > Unix. I don't know what the arguments for doing it like that on Unix > were, but they certainly don't seem to apply to typing.
It's the default on Unix as well - you have to do "make install ENSUREPIP=no" to avoid getting it. (And some distros also modify their Python installations so that pip is missing by default) We provide "python -m ensurepip" because we offer ways to skip doing it at install time (and venv creation time), so the explicit command gives folks a straightforward way to change their minds later. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
