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[Python-ideas] Looking for input to help with the pip situation

Michel Desmoulin desmoulinmichel at gmail.com
Fri Nov 10 01:50:00 EST 2017 
> 
> I.e., Install under the "Python 3.6" start menu an additional
> "Python command prompt", which will
> start cmd.exe with an appropriate PATH so that python and pip
> run without further prefix.
> 
> That way, the installer still doesn't need to mess with global PATH and
> you can
> easily have multiple versions of Python, each with their own
> "Python command prompt" submenu.
> 
> At least for Windows users this would simplify the situation a bit.


They already do that on windows. But adding "yet another way" to do
things differently on different OS doesn't feel like a solution ot me.
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