>> Inside of a virtualenv, what's the difference between a --user install >> and a system one? >> > > It errors out: > > % pip install --user urllib3 > Can not perform a '--user' install. User site-packages are not visible > in this virtualenv.
I was able to 'pip install --user ...' a package yesterday in a Conda environment, so I think it's a YMMV sort of thing. Having only ever used the Conda environment stuff, I've generally interpreted the term "virtual environment" in a fairly generic way. Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
