Re: Is ensurepip still a thing?
Chris Barker - NOAA Federal via Distutils-SIG <[email protected]>
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> IIRC, ensurepip by design doesn't go to the internet , so it will only > ever upgrade to the version bundled with Python Now I’m really confused — if pip is already bundled with Python, then what is ensurepip for ?!?! Or really, the question at hand: should a user starting from scratch with a python.org install of 3.7 run ensurepip? Or can they just go straight to: Python3 -m pip install —upgrade pip ?!? -CHB > from the docs "To > ensure the installed version of pip is *at least as recent as the one > bundled with ensurepip*, pass the --upgrade option" [emphasis mine]). > To get the latest available version, you should do `python -m pip > install --upgrade pip` (better than `pip install...` as it works on > Windows) as you mentioned. > > Paul -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XGQ7HMBNLSRG37IMIQ5WXAMEDS6UNLJW/