[Python-Dev] PEP 453 (pip bootstrapping) ready for pronouncement? (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Sep 26 16:28:42 CEST 2013

Le Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:22:55 -0400, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> a écrit :

Ideally people won't be typing either of them because it'll be installed automatically. They might in some cases (accidentally uninstalled pip?)

Installing from source perhaps.

I agree that it seems there is paranoia going on here and that the risk is low and making it just be a special cased new feature is ok. However the point of the underscore prefix on 2.7 and 3.3 is to more effectively communicate that on these pythons you shouldn't rely on that module existing.

That's a fair argument, although it also makes the thing a bit ugly.

Regards

Antoine.

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