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Title: BETA report: Python3.6 names pip pip3.6 (and why is the other name pip3)
Type: enhancement Stage: resolved
Components: Versions: Python 3.7, Python 3.6, Python 3.4, Python 3.5
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Status: closed Resolution: third party
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Assigned To: Nosy List: Michael.Felt, aixtools@gmail.com, r.david.murray, zach.ware
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Created on 2016-10-04 18:46 by Michael.Felt, last changed 2022-04-11 14:58 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (4)
msg278075 - (view) Author: Michael Felt (Michael.Felt) * Date: 2016-10-04 18:46
a) pip is embedded in Python for some time.
b) pip is called pip3.5 (with link to pip3)
c) in Python3.6 pip is now called pip3.6 and linked to pip3

pip is pip - not pip3* because python is now called python3*

pip is pip - currently version 8.1.2 - what does that have to do with pip3?

IMHO - the name should just be pip

p.s. in Python2.7 - pip is embedded, but not installed automatically. However, when you run the embedded install - pip is pip
msg278081 - (view) Author: Zachary Ware (zach.ware) * (Python committer) Date: 2016-10-04 19:11
Pip is a third party project, so if you'd like to pursue this please open an issue on the pip issue tracker at https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues.

Anyway, pip installs links named the way it does so that you can be (more) sure that you're invoking the correct pip.  'pip3.6' will invoke the pip installed with python3.6, 'pip3' will (or at least should) invoke the pip installed with whatever 'python3' points to, and 'pip' will point to whatever 'python' points to.  When installed in a Python 3 venv, pip also installs a 'pip' link to 'pip3', just as there's also a 'python' link to 'python3'.  In 2.7, pip is also installed as 'pip2.7' and 'pip2' along with 'pip'; again mirroring the version tags on the interpreter links.
msg278097 - (view) Author: R. David Murray (r.david.murray) * (Python committer) Date: 2016-10-05 00:30
There's really not much point in opening an issue in the pip tracker; this is working as designed, as Zach explained.  On posix you "shouldn't" be using pip outside of a virtual environment anyway :)
msg278151 - (view) Author: Michael Felt (aixtools@gmail.com) Date: 2016-10-05 21:20
On 04-Oct-16 21:11, Zachary Ware wrote:
> Zachary Ware added the comment:
>
> Pip is a third party project, so if you'd like to pursue this please open an issue on the pip issue tracker at https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues.
I stand corrected.
> Anyway, pip installs links named the way it does so that you can be (more) sure that you're invoking the correct pip.  'pip3.6' will invoke the pip installed with python3.6, 'pip3' will (or at least should) invoke the pip installed with whatever 'python3' points to, and 'pip' will point to whatever 'python' points to.  When installed in a Python 3 venv, pip also installs a 'pip' link to 'pip3', just as there's also a 'python' link to 'python3'.  In 2.7, pip is also installed as 'pip2.7' and 'pip2' along with 'pip'; again mirroring the version tags on the interpreter links.
So, I guess I should rename my python-3.X packages python3-3.X so they 
can install side.by.side rather than only one or the other. Good point.
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History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:58:37adminsetgithub: 72547
2016-10-05 21:20:06aixtools@gmail.comsetnosy: + aixtools@gmail.com
messages: + msg278151
2016-10-05 00:30:03r.david.murraysetnosy: + r.david.murray
messages: + msg278097
2016-10-04 19:11:43zach.waresetstatus: open -> closed

nosy: + zach.ware
messages: + msg278081

resolution: third party
stage: resolved
2016-10-04 18:46:02Michael.Feltcreate