Hey folks! I run Mint 18.3 and I have both Pyhon3.5 and Python3.6 since many devs got crazy with fstring syntactic sugar.
How to deal with Pip module management? The 3.5 version (which is python3) is fine and can import everything as usual, but the 3.6 version (which is python3.6) cannot.
Suggestions?
EDIT: thanks all ^^
I ended up using:
$> python3.6 -m pip install {module I need}
Generally every python3 app these days requires py3.6.1+ because this version has some major changes. You should really upgrade.
You should probably never upgrade your system version of python, as the OS might be dependant on it. If I need a newer python version than my OS supports out of the box, I’ll first check the official repos to see if a newer version is available, and otherwise I’ll compile from source, which really isn’t that difficult.
I’ll do so at some point. I am conservative in system updates.
What was the driving force pushing forward from 3.5.x to 3.6.1+? Is it just syntactic sugar?
There are major syntax updates for asynchronous programming, f-strings and few other minor but useful things like
pathlib.Pathobjects which are often used in desktop apps and CLIs.Thanks to clarify!
I am too noob to assess how many programs could critically benefit from these advancements. The programs I have encounter until now - a niche of a niche of the scientific community - break the backwards compatibility just for fstrings. Also, I am not confident with interfaces and more on the back-end side. That is why my experience is biased against syntactic sugar.
I am glad people find useful these brand-new features and open to learn them. :hugging face:
Cheers, 3.6 was a really good release! Releases like this are somewhat rare in programming languages so confusion is understandable :)