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Support for PEP 723 (inline script metadata) has landed on pip's main branch thanks to some helpful guidance from the maintainers.

https://github.com/pypa/pip/commit/36987b0c31b97ffb9fb7949ded628e9a6b10c016

Here's hoping it'll smooth out some distribution wrinkles for people who have been getting along with just-pip and single-file scripts paired with requirements files 🤞

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Support installing requirements from inline script metadata, à la PEP… · pypa/pip@36987b0

… 723 (#13052) Adds --requirements-from-script to install requirements declared within inline script metadata (PEP 723). The slightly unwieldy name reflects that pip will also check the requires-p...

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Another very common way to avoid issues with default argument values is to avoid using mutable default values.

Mutable default arguments

In Python, default argument values are defined only one time (when a function is defined).

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