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Python2012–2026
pypa / pip

pip

The Python package installer

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What it is

The Python package installer

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:49:33 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year105 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-06-22 17:44:37 UTC to 2026-10-22 01:47:33 UTC.

0510152012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 1 submissions, 8 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 0 submissions, 11 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 17 mentions; 4 submissions, 13 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 2 submissions, 12 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 0 submissions, 9 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 0 submissions, 14 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC918
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC11011
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC17413
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14212
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC909
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14014
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505

From the project README

An excerpt from the repository, fetched Nov 13, 2026.

Read the project’s introduction
pip - The Python Package Installer Pip is the package installer for Python. You can use pip to install packages from the Python Package Index and other indexes. Please take a look at our documentation for how to install and use pip: Installation Usage We release updates regularly, with a new version every 3 months. Find more details in our documentation: Release notes Release process If you find bugs, need help, or want to talk to the developers, please use our mailing lists or chat rooms: Issue tracking Discourse channel User IRC If you want to get involved, head over to GitHub to get the source code, look at our development documentation and feel free to jump on the developer mailing lists and chat rooms: GitHub page Development documentation Development IRC Code of Conduct Everyone interacting in the pip project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms, and mailing lists is expected to follow the PSF Code of Conduct.
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What Hacker News says

14 sources
fnord123·Jul 27, 2021
>Python versions: no fixes for anything important, just more half-baked features nobody asked for. Oh god, tell me about it! 'Hey guise I heard pattern matching in rust and Scala and Haskell is popular! Let's add it to python but with no compile time checks to make sure matches are exaustive!' Some excellent and smart devs who I really do respect worked really hard to deliver a complete dog shit feature while pip languishes for almost a year with a broken version resolver [1]. It's so frustrating. :( :( :( [1] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/9187
In Rust for Linux redux
BugsJustFindMe·Jun 10, 2021
Following reverse dependencies on github (trivial with the search api for enough cases to make a difference) is something that I very very strongly wish that Pypa had done for the pip 20 resolver change. It was even suggested to them by several people, but the suggestions were dismissed because breaking countless CI toolchains across the globe was considered fine because the new resolution behavior was "correct". Instead we got https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8713 back in August and then https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/9187 in November which is pinned and still open to this day.
In Did I break you? Reverse dependency verification
divbzero·Apr 8, 2021
I went through the same progression, thinking pipenv was the official solution before deciding it wasn’t. Then, just now, I realized that pipenv [1] is currently owned by the Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) who also owns pip [2] and virtualenv [3]. I don’t know the right answer but this illustrates the confusion of not coalescing around an official solution. [1]: https://github.com/pypa/pipenv [2]: https://github.com/pypa/pip [3]: https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv
In How to make a Python package in 2021
macNchz·Feb 10, 2021
Poetry (and now pip with its new resolver) has taken a hard line on not letting you install conflicting dependencies(1)(2). On the surface this sounds ideal: you can't wind up with some combination of packages that won't work together. The reality is that there are tons of Python libraries out there with poorly specified (or just slightly out of date) dependencies, and it's super annoying to have your package manager just give up and say "sorry, not installing that!" when you encounter them. This is an issue when working on applications with lots of dependencies, where I know certain packages will work together despite their setup.py files claiming otherwise. There are many reasons you'd want to install a version of a library that disagrees with one of your other dependencies...security updates in subdependencies, maintainers who are slow
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to test against new versions or don't even use their own libraries anymore etc. The answer in these cases shouldn't be limited to "work with the package maintainer to get the dependencies changed, or fork it". Yarn, for example, has a simple way to handle this situation (and a clear understanding of why it's necessary baked into the docs!) (3) [1] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/697 [2] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8076 [3] https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/docs/selective-version-resolu...
In A Poetic Apology: Or Why Should You Use Poetry to Manage Python Dependencies

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