Python use and practices notes

2023-06-21, 2023-08-09 update

• in every new virtual environment created with venv:

(venv) $ pip install --upgrade pip

2023-08-09:

• TIL pip cache purge ;-- sometimes it is a good idea to clean out the cache, but not sure how to determine what those sometimes are

2023-06-16: clean out all the installed pip modules pip freeze | xargs pip uninstall -y leaves me with:

$ pip list
Package    Version
---------- -------
pip        23.2.1
setuptools 68.1.2
wheel      0.41.2