Phil Elson

> But, I can't see the gh-pages or any other branch that would be serving that content... Maybe it is protected and only admins can view that branch? :thinking: -...

Hi @andreas-h. Interesting. The CF spec states: > 7.1. Cell Boundaries > To represent cells we add the attribute bounds to the appropriate coordinate variable(s). The value of bounds is...

As it stands, the proposed implementation would be sub-optimal performance wise, but at least it would be better than getting an error all the time... In the long term, we'd...

> Could you please elaborate on why you want this? What use case does this help with? Sure, I'll try with my specific case, and then hopefully we can draw...

Thank you for your input so far. > would likely cause problems for people who rely on global settings not leaking into a virtualenv (e.g., testing) We should try to...

Thanks for the suggestion of extending ``EnvBuilder``. Indeed this does work to automatically configure a venv with ``pip.conf``, and I've been running with such a tweak for quite some time....

> Also, isolation is important from the point of view of bug triage - "can you reproduce your issue in an empyth virtualenv" is much easier than "can you reproduce...

> what's not been made clear through the course of this conversation is that this change would only be applicable to Conda environments I don't think this conversation has anything...

> This boils down to, pip looks at the currently active environment, the site configuration, and the user configuration. This is also simple to explain. It might sound simple, but...

> A user of a multi-tenant machine (e.g. a supercomputer or an organisation's internal cluster), with multiple Python distributions requiring distinct pip configs I realise now that I've not even...