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Ned Batchelder@nedbat@hachyderm.io
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Virtual environments in #python should have been called project environments.

Jul 5, 2026, 13:38 UTCen
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David Vujic@davidvujic@mastodon.nu
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@nedbat or maybe Local environment. Then a repo with many projects would make sense too 😁

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Paul Moore@pfmoore@mastodon.social
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@nedbat Disagree. I use them all the time for things that aren't projects.

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gnarf@gnarf@hachyderm.io
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@pfmoore @nedbat Everything's a project!

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AN/CRM-114@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange
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@gnarf @pfmoore @nedbat [sighing] you got that right

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AN/CRM-114@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange
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@nedbat that thing where they create a virtualenv in their home directory and install everything in it

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Ned Batchelder@nedbat@hachyderm.io
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@flyingsaceur that's still more "project" than "virtual"

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AN/CRM-114@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange
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@nedbat yeah, that’s a bad habit the name change would curtail

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