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 Appt, Yum, and others on Linux.

But if you want to install Python applications, you typically have to fall back to managing them

with PIP.

Maybe you install them for your account with the dash-dash 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 definitely

worth considering as a channel. On this episode, we have Chad Smith, creator of PIPX to tell us

all about it, how it works, and how to use it.

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