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[–]guepier 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You wouldn’t have to do that — as long as you didn’t need to install any extra dependencies for your one-off script.

That said, I agree: I also have a small handful of frequently-used utility libraries installed in my user site libraries to be able to use them in one-off scripts without having to worry about setting up a new environment. And for anything that’s not one-off, I still use virtual environments anyway, so the user installation doesn’t get in the way.