State of python

[JulianGoeltz]

The CHANGELOG.md states for version 2021-A

Remove Python, because it is not required in a default setup

however python is advertised both here in the Readme, and on the docker page. Is is also available locally in the container, but pip (or python -m pip) fails even though listed on the docker page. Is this intended behaviour, and if so could you please direct people in the readme on how to make pip available?
I use this container for a build process that also creates figures, and python including pip is necessary. Tonight the build process failed with No module named pip. It would be great to get it to work again, the container is of great help!
Cheers

[JulianGoeltz]

Ah, sorry, now I've seen d6569dc . It seems that the python availability is by accident. I fixed it in my workflow simply with an additional

apt-get update
apt-get install -y python3-pip

I still thing (especially if python is installed anyway) that pip availability is desirable, but because it is available fixed I'm gonna close the issue. Sorry for the noise

[wallento]

I want to second that. It still has Python and adding pip seems a minimal extra, right? It broke my CI by surprise and doc should be updated to be consistent.

[JulianGoeltz]

I want to second that. It still has Python and adding pip seems a minimal extra, right? It broke my CI by surprise and doc should be updated to be consistent.

@wallento do you want to reopen the issue to get a response from @koppor

[koppor]

I was not aware that my "quick fix" broke some other builds. I focused on getting minted running. --> https://github.com/dante-ev/docker-texlive/blob/main/test/minimal-minted.tex produces a highlighted pdf.

Note that python comes with the "base" image: https://gitlab.com/islandoftex/images/texlive/-/blob/master/Dockerfile.latest

Thus, "just" pip is missing. - I installed the pygments using debian's packaging system; and not using the "hacky" pip way.

Two users justify for me to include pip in this image.

Will update the CHANGELOG.md, since this is wrong.

Feel free to add PRs on this repo to keep things going. I try to look into it regularly.

[JulianGoeltz]

Thanks a lot.
Love that this image exists by the way, so thank you for this as well!