Re: [gentoo-user] python2 problem

[Bill Kenworthy]

On 9 August 2021 1:06:23 am AWST, cal <cal@×××××××××.technology> wrote:
>On 8/8/21 5:12 AM, William Kenworthy wrote:
>> Hi, I am trying to install the ssspsk python module using pip for python
>> 2 (for tuya-convert) but its not working.
>>
>> I have installed python 2.7 from portage and followed the wiki (set
>> python_targets, emerge -NuDv etc.), however pip seems to only know how
>> to install for python3.
>>
>> For python 2.7 do I need to go completely manual for installation?
>>
>> BillK
>>
>Gentoo's dev-lang/python package configures Python --without-ensurepip,
>meaning that pip will not be installed alongside this package by
>default.  There is a separate dev-python/pip package providing pip, but
>it appears this package only supports Python 3 targets (which is
>reasonable as 2.7 is no longer supported upstream).
>
>If you *really* need Python 2.7, you could modify the ebuild of
>dev-lang/python-2.7 to enable --with-ensurepip, or you could try to make
>the dev-python/pip package support the python2_7 target, or you could
>download the source from python.org and configure/build it yourself into
>a separate directory.
>
>However, it is probably worth first checking if there is a release of
>the software you want to use that supports Python 3 instead.
>
>cal
>

Thanks,  I'll look into this. 
BillK