Education is one of the [three petals of pyOpenSci](https://www.pyopensci.org/blog/pyos-education-announcement.html), and to that end we strive to create resources that help learners navigate the Python packaging ecosystem with ease. This means that when we find our community members and scientists encountering consistent issues with trying to make their workflows more open and reproducible, or trying to build a Python package, we look for ways to lower (or ideally remove!) the barrier for learners. And this was exactly the scenario we were faced with in our beginner-friendly packaging tutorials. We decided that Hatch is a great user-friendly tool that scientists can use to package and share their code. However, in developing and teaching our [Get to know Hatch tutorial](https://www.pyopensci.org/python-package-guide/tutorials/get-to-know-hatch.html), we found scientists struggling to install a tool called [`pipx`](https://github.com/pypa/pipx) that can be used to install Hatch globally, rather than in a Python environment. This was causing a host of problems (in large part because `pipx` can be tricky to install on Windows machines!)
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