On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 5:45 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 12:14:03 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> How do I deal with permissions errors? [semi-rhetorical question -- I >>> know *an* answer, but I don't know if it is the *right* answer] >> >> That's a fair point, but a perms error is reported properly by pip. > > Is it? Last time I tried, I just got an uninformative error that the > package installation failed. Admittedly that was probably a year or two > ago, so maybe the error message has been improved.
Hmm. Last time I tried, it was pretty informative, but that was on Linux. I actually don't know about Windows, and whether there are weird situations that would result in obscure messages. Would have to get someone to try it. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list