I'm sure you're familiar with package managers for your OS even if you don't use them. On macOS we have Homebrew, Chocolatey on Windows, and apt, yum, and others on Linux. But if you want to install Python applications, you typically have to fallback to managing them with pip. Maybe you install them for your account with the --user flag. But with pipx you get a clean, isolated install for every Python application that you use. And if you distribute Python apps, pipx is a definitely worth considering as a channel. 
 
Links from the show 
 
<div>Chad Smith: <a href="https://twitter.com/cs01_software" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@cs01_software</a> 
Pipx: <a href="https://github.com/pypa/pipx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">github.com</a> 
Entry Points: <a href="https://dev.to/demianbrecht/entry-points-in-python-34i3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dev.to</a> 
Python Packaging Dashboard: <a href="https://chadsmith.dev/python-packaging/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chadsmith.dev</a> 
MKDocStrings: <a href="https://mkdocstrings.github.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mkdocstrings.github.io</a> 
 
gdbgui: <a href="https://github.com/cs01/gdbgui" target="_blank" rel="noopener">github.com</a> 
termpair: <a href="https://github.com/cs01/termpair" target="_blank" rel="noopener">github.com</a> 
httpie: <a href="https://httpie.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener">httpie.io</a> 
pls (ls-replacement): <a href="https://dhruvkb.github.io/pls/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dhruvkb.github.io</a> 
Glances: <a href="https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nicolargo.github.io</a> 
Watch this episode on YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ5icmr7qnE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">youtube.com</a> 
Episode transcripts: <a href="https://talkpython.fm/episodes/transcript/371/pipx-installable-isolated-python-applications" target="_blank" rel="noopener">talkpython.fm</a> 
 
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