Time to add feature to 7-year old Python script: 10 mins Time to set up Python env so I could run script: 3 hours Python scripts have a maintenance-free shelf life of a few years: it is not suitable for long-term codebases. I wish someone told me before I started using Python.
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I’ve had to rm -rf the pip installation directory a few times carefully - also note that you can end up with stuff in both ~/.local and /usr/local. Are you using Ubuntu by chance? I know 1 or 2 ways you can get into this situation sadly I need to open bugs about that.

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Yah I had to sleuth out the stuff in ~/.local and and /usr/local plus uninstall pip with prejudice to get things to behave. Yes, it's Ubuntu. And I got myself there by taking the recommendation printed out by pip to update pip + some stale SSL cert issue that prevented fetching.
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Python 4 is out already or is in beta. And it's not a breaking change as far as I can tell. Also virtualenv helps somewhat. Anyway sounds like OS packaged Python problems, would happen to most other languages.
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