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by tedmiston 3392 days ago
I think the argument for runtime fragmentation and package fragmentation is a bit exaggerated. Most people use pip. Most people use CPython. People make tradeoffs when they need to use another interpreter for performance reasons [1], but CPython is the reference implementation. Just because alternative options exist for specific cases doesn't mean there's fragmentation in the ecosystem at large.

[1]: http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/which-python...