Re: [Distutils] Installing packages using pip

2015-11-14 Thread R. David Murray
On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 13:48:51 -0500, Alexander Walters wrote: > I perhaps can support added dialogs to IDLE to manage packages (having > it shell out to pip, if no api is forthcoming), but I don't think I can > support having the repl inside of IDLE intercept pip's command line > syntax and do

Re: [Distutils] Installing packages using pip

2015-11-14 Thread Alexander Walters
I perhaps can support added dialogs to IDLE to manage packages (having it shell out to pip, if no api is forthcoming), but I don't think I can support having the repl inside of IDLE intercept pip's command line syntax and do anything OTHER than giving a better error message. On 11/14/2015 06:3

Re: [Distutils] Installing packages using pip

2015-11-14 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 14 Nov 2015 11:12, "Paul Moore" wrote: > > On 13 November 2015 at 23:38, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > > But details of R's execution model make this easier to do. > > Indeed. I don't know how R works, but Python's module caching > behaviour would mean this would be full of surprising and confusing

Re: [Distutils] Installing packages using pip

2015-11-14 Thread Paul Moore
On 13 November 2015 at 23:38, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > But details of R's execution model make this easier to do. Indeed. I don't know how R works, but Python's module caching behaviour would mean this would be full of surprising and confusing corner cases ("I upgraded but I'm still getting the o