Message 333639 - Python tracker

Message333639

Author	barry
Recipients	Anthony Sottile, Chris Billington, Ivan.Pozdeev, SilentGhost, __Vano, barry, brett.cannon, christian.heimes, emma_smith, eric.smith, eric.snow, jaraco, mhammond, ncoghlan, pitrou, takluyver, terry.reedy, vstinner
Date	2019-01-14.19:56:34
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On Jan 14, 2019, at 04:14, Antoine Pitrou <report@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > As I said: editable installs (`pip install -e`) are an important use case of .pth files. Is that true outside of virtual environments? I care less about .pth files inside venvs, since those are typically isolated to a single development environment, and don’t affect Python applications or libraries globally.

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On Jan 14, 2019, at 04:14, Antoine Pitrou <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> As I said: editable installs (`pip install -e`) are an important use case of .pth files.

Is that true outside of virtual environments?  I care less about .pth files inside venvs, since those are typically isolated to a single development environment, and don’t affect Python applications or libraries globally.

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