Entries published on December 7, 2023
Use “pip install” safely
This is part of a series of posts I’m doing as a sort of Python/Django Advent calendar, offering a small tip or piece of information each day from the first Sunday of Advent through Christmas Eve. See the first post for an introduction.
Managing dependencies should be boring
Last year I wrote a post about “boring” dependency management in Python, where I advocated a setup based entirely around standard Python packaging tools, in that case the pip
package installer and the venv
module for creating virtual environments (the only non-standard thing I recommended there was pip-tools, and specifically …