Pipx: Access Python Utilities Anywhere, No Virtual Environment Required

In this video, we introduce you to pipx, a handy package manager for installing Python dependencies globally 🚀

Unlike traditional virtual environments, pipx creates a local folder for managing dependencies, making them accessible system-wide. We quickly demonstrate how to install the tool, and then its main features like installing, listing and upgrading dependencies.

We mostly use it for commonly used tools / utilities like bpython, black, isort, flake8, eatlocal (to solve Bites locally!), and now also our new command line search tool: pybites-search 🎉

Hope this helps you in your Python developer workflow!

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And last but not least, we appreciate any feedback to make our YouTube content better 💡

[murdockscott]

Thanks for this video, I am trying to get my head around pipx even though I have very little command line experience. It was especially helpful for me to see it used in the MacOS terminal.

[TheMoviesfable]

Hey sorry I did not understand whats the value? How is it different from instaling something with pip?

[AndreyPlotkin]

How is it different from using pip on a base python installation?