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I was trying to install nose in a virtual environment today.

When trying with pip:

pip install nose

I got this error:

ValueError: failed to parse CPython sys.version: '2.7.5 ...

And could not get around it.

However,

easy_install nose

Just worked and didn't throw any errors.

SO is full of comments about how easy_install is a bad idea (like: Why use pip over easy_install?)

Question:

Is there any downside to installing packages with whatever works instead of staying 100% loyal to pip? It seems like there are packages out there that cause pip to fail but that easy_install can handle without any problem.

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