Publishing Python Packages

Appendix A. Installing asdf and python-launcher

In this book, you’ll need to manage the installation of multiple Python versions and virtual environments and the switching between them. This appendix covers the installation of tools to ease this burden, which you’ll learn more about in the chapters.

Important

The tools covered in this appendix are recommendations I give for convenience to people looking for an easier way to manage environments on macOS, and they’re the ones I use myself. If you’re already deeply familiar with installing base Python versions and managing virtual environments, you don’t need to use them. If you’re on Windows or Linux, you may need to install additional dependencies for these tools to work, and you may want or ...