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9th December 2021

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TIL Using C_INCLUDE_PATH to install Python packages — I tried to install my [datasette-bplist](https://github.com/simonw/datasette-bplist) plugin today in a fresh Python 3.10 virtual environment on macOS and got this error:

Posted 9th December 2021 at 10:27 pm

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