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On 3/21/2024 4:19 PM, Grant Edwards via Python-list wrote:
> On 2024-03-21, MRAB via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote:
> 
>> As it's recommended to use the Python Launcher py on Windows, I use
>> that instead:
>>
>> py -m pip install something
>>
>> because it gives better support if you have multiple versions of
>> Python installed.
> 
> I adopted that practice years ago on Linux as well after wasting what
> seemed like most of a day trying to figure out problems which turned
> out to be caused by the fact that "pip" and "python" invoked different
> versions of Python.

Although you still need to be aware that there might be a different 
Python installation between e.g. "python3 -m pip" and "python3.11 -m 
pip", etc. depending on what's been installed.