mitsuhiko/pipsi

Missing instructions on using with both py2 & py3

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#84 opened on Nov 15, 2016

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Description

Goal: work with packages like "bandit" - which may need both py2 & py3 versions installed (since they use the AST module of the python executable).

There are 2 challenges here:

  • being able to specify the python to be used during the install (the --python option to virtualenv)
  • being able to append the "usual" suffixes for each version (since both bandit2 and bandit3 would be in ~/.local/bin/

I've seen hints on the web that such a setup is possible, however I have not been able to find the details anywhere.

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Investigate how pipsi handles Python version specification and how to manually create separate scripts for Python 2 and Python 3 using the python flag and version suffixes.
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