[zbentley]

Python dependency management certainly has many problems, but I don't think this is one of them--or at least, it's not a problem unique to Python. The practice of tutorials/docs/guides installing unpinned/latest versions is incredibly common in most (all?) scripting languages' communities. While that's not great, I don't think it has anything to do with the fragmentation of Python's dependency management.

[sergioisidoro]

Well, if there would be one accepted dependency management tool / environment, it would make things easier at least.

For example, despite all the problems of JS, new devs don't need to create a virtual environment and activate it all the time. They don't need to manually add lines to a requirements.txt, or pick a tool like poetry or pip env [1]

[1] Edit: ok they have to pick yarn/npm, but even those share a common file base formate - package.json