How to Fix Pip “Yanked Version” Warnings
Sometimes pip install will flag a warning saying “The candidate selected for download or install is a yanked version”. For example, if we install attrs version 21.1.0:
Use ‘python -m pip’ Everywhere
I’ve just moved all my open source repositories from using plain pip to python -m pip, in test scripts and documentation.
‘pip install’ From a Git Repository
It’s quite common to want to pip install a version of a package that hasn’t been released to PyPI, but is available on its Git repository host, such as GitHub. If the package is pure Python or has a relatively simple build process, you can normally install it directly via Git.