System Packages, pip install --user, virtualenv and conda. We have never had so many ways to install python packages, and yet it is becoming increasingly hard to tell exactly where all the packages you depend on are coming from and even harder to reproduce the same package setup twice.

In this talk we'll learn how Nix package manager can provide a complete dependency management solution for python projects. Setting up isolated, reproducible development and build environments can be easy and fun, and can even directly generate incredibly svelte docker images with ease.