Re: python3 modules -- apt vs pip?

[Nemeth Gyorgy <lists@friczy.net>]

2020. 04. 03. 23:54 keltezéssel, Joe Pfeiffer írta:
> I've been using apt (and friends) to maintain my systems, including
> python.  Today I discovered the Debian version of the more-itertools
> module is on version 4.2.0 and is three years old.  Meanwhile, the
> version documented on pypi.org is at version 8.2.0, and has at least one
> recipe whose arguments  are in a different order from the Debian
> packaged version (grouper, whose order of arguments changed in version
> 6.0.0).  This causes problems, as you might imagine, with other modules!
>
> So... do people generally use pip to maintain their python libraries,
> rather than apt?  What's the recommended best practices here?
>
Keep using apt on your system. If you need newer libraries from pip,
create virtual environment.