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icco on March 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Legit. Git for humans

Seems like a cool idea, but would be way (I've never even heard of the pip command before) better if it could be installed in one command. See http://betterthangrep.com/, https://github.com/defunkt/gist or http://beginrescueend.com/.

huxley on March 25, 2012 | [–]

Pip is a replacement for easy_install

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip

Pip compared to easy_install:

http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/other-tools.html

ashconnor on March 25, 2012 | [–]

pip is used to install Python packages.

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