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pythonanywhere helper scripts (GitHub: pythonanywhere/helper_scripts) candidate for Batteries-Included

Hi,

The pythonanywhere helper script module (pypi: pythonanywhere, GitHub: https://github.com/pythonanywhere/helper_scripts) might be a good candidate for pre-installation (Batteries Included). Seems reasonable since these scripts are intended to be run from a PythonAnywhere console.

Workaround - install user-globally with pip3 install --user pythonanywhere .

Best Brett

Right, it would be a very logical thing to install given that we wrote it and it's PythonAnywhere-specific :-) The problem is that when we install something globally, it's pretty much fixed until we create a new system image --we can't upgrade point releases of the batteries included because it would risk breaking customer sites that depend on the old versions. And that package is moving quite rapidly at the moment because our API is changing quite fast. Once the API is out of beta, we'll probably add it to the batteries included.