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> they're not an absolute beginner

gp's claim is not "its easy to learn". It's not just the concept -- it's the ergonomics, absolutely terrible footguns (especially when dealing with global wheels that can screw up your running system), and the hidden state.




When would you want to interface between a specific project and the global Python environment running your system? If there's ever a time when "lock the project into a venv and don't cross-contaminate its dependencies with the global Python environment" isn't the answer, that sounds like a corner case. Let each project be its thing by itself.




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