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Python's way of letting strangers run code on your laptop, on purpose.

means The command-line tool that installs Python packages by downloading and running someone else's code on your machine.

from Officially a recursive acronym for 'Pip Installs Packages' (or, in an earlier joke version, 'Pip Installs Python') — a self-referential name coined for the tool itself, with no deeper linguistic ancestry beyond that bit of programmer wit.

name origin
recursive acronym for pip installs packages
birth year
created 2008 by ian bicking
default repo
pulls from pypi, largely unvetted by anyone
not included
python 2 shipped without it, oddly
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