Jeff Forcier @bitprophet@social.coop
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mcc regrettably (& completely understandably) running into The Python Problem:

- it’s appealing to use for system tools, so core OS bits are often built with it (Ubuntu, RH yum, included by default in macOS, etc)
- also appealing for random user scripts
- single global package environment by default
- average user can’t be expected to have virtualenv knowledge
- now one’s user scripts are tightly coupled to the system tools interpreter
- aw, fuck, shit!!
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mcc (@mcc@mastodon.social)

No, no, the problem is worse than I thought. - I tell apt to install python3.9. It does. - I tell apt to remove python3.8. It says, okay, then I'll uninstall all these other things also: and the list includes ubuntu-release-upgrader-core ubuntu-standard and CLEARLY if I say yes I will no longer have a functional system. I have python 3.9. But when I run apps I installed via pip, they complain that they're running in python 3.8. I don't actually know how to fix this. gghgshfhg

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