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Re: Pip installs to unexpected place

From	"Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-python@hjp.at>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Pip installs to unexpected place
Date	2025-04-19 10:38 +0200
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On 2025-04-18 17:11:33 +0100, Oscar Benjamin via Python-list wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 at 16:50, Peter J. Holzer via Python-list
> <python-list@python.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 2025-04-18 13:24:28 +1200, Greg Ewing via Python-list wrote:
> > > On 18/04/25 9:41 am, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> > > > There's just not a really great answer to this.
> > >
> > > Seems to me a system-installed application shouldn't be looking in the
> > > user's .local packages in the first place. That should only be for things
> > > the user has installed "for this user".
> >
> > It's not the application that looks into .local, it's Python. If you say
> > that a system-installed Python shouldn't look into ~/.local, then you've
> > just disabled that mechanism completely. If not then Python would
> > somehow have to distinguish between system-installed and user-installed
> > scripts. This isn't as easy as checking whether the path starts with
> > /usr/bin or whether it belongs to root. Tying into the system's package
> > manager doesn't look appealing to me (not to mention that it might be
> > unacceptably slow).
> 
> Couldn't the system-installed scripts have a shebang like:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python3 -s

Yes, that should work. At least I can't think of any downsides at the
moment.

        hjp

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Re: Pip installs to unexpected place Mats Wichmann <mats@wichmann.us> - 2025-04-17 15:41 -0600
  Re: Pip installs to unexpected place Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2025-04-18 13:24 +1200
    Re: Pip installs to unexpected place (Posting On Python-List Prohibited) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-18 02:20 +0000
    Re: Pip installs to unexpected place "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-python@hjp.at> - 2025-04-18 17:38 +0200
    Re: Pip installs to unexpected place Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2025-04-18 17:11 +0100
    Re: Pip installs to unexpected place Thomas Passin <list1@tompassin.net> - 2025-04-18 13:08 -0400
    Re: Pip installs to unexpected place "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-python@hjp.at> - 2025-04-19 10:38 +0200
    Re: Pip installs to unexpected place "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-python@hjp.at> - 2025-04-19 10:56 +0200
      Re: Pip installs to unexpected place songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2025-04-19 07:49 -0400
    Re: Pip installs to unexpected place Thomas Passin <list1@tompassin.net> - 2025-04-19 15:56 -0400
      Re: Pip installs to unexpected place rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-20 04:34 +0000

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