Yeah. I've heard this same comment before in different forms from "Python apologists" about a dozen times. In practice it's still a lot of hair-pulling, because your entire comment assumes that EVERY Python project is already doing things exactly this way and hasn't screwed up a single part of it: https://twitter.com/pmarreck/status/1735363908515295253
but also...
> but stuff like this would usually get installed globally
well, you just killed (apparently unknowingly?) your whole argument right there, because globals are bad and absolutely not project-specific and absolutely do cause compatibility issues between different Python projects
If you ever come around to Nix, it takes care of this problem for good (as in, it guarantees that you will never have 2 projects that step on each other), across every ecosystem, not just Python's. Unfortunately, I don't see very many Python projects at all that contain a flake.nix file, which is a damn shame, because it would cause people like me to hate Python just a tiny bit less
but also...
> but stuff like this would usually get installed globally
well, you just killed (apparently unknowingly?) your whole argument right there, because globals are bad and absolutely not project-specific and absolutely do cause compatibility issues between different Python projects
If you ever come around to Nix, it takes care of this problem for good (as in, it guarantees that you will never have 2 projects that step on each other), across every ecosystem, not just Python's. Unfortunately, I don't see very many Python projects at all that contain a flake.nix file, which is a damn shame, because it would cause people like me to hate Python just a tiny bit less