Chris Withers wrote: > On 22/02/2012 00:37, python-ex...@raf.org wrote: > >was good for previous versions. two reasons that spring to mind > >immediately are: > > > > - it makes it much easier to tell what version is installed > > - it makes it much easier to uninstall the package > > > >i know that both of these are things that the python community > >does not yet seem to find useful but everyone else seems to. > > That's because it's no longer best practice to polute the global > python installation by installing packages directly into it. > > The recommended wisdom nowadays is to use a virtualenv and then pip > install the package. > > I believe that will give you everything you need, please explain if > it doesn't. > > cheers, > > Chris
thanks. i'm sure that'll do nicely. cheers, raf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
