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pipx is for installing python scripts as cli tools, as an end user.

Say there is a thing called ytb-dlp that lets you download YouTube videos. Instead of creating a virtualenv for it yourself, activating it, pip installing this thing inside it, and then having to cumbersomely use it like that..

pipx install ytb-dlp. It will do all of that for you and put it on your path.

> I have read on occasion that pyenv seems to be woefully unmaintained. If that is true, is it a good move to learn using poetry instead.

No.




That explains much better: pipx is basically python cli related ops. Thanks for the ELi5 explanation




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