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virtualenv has an advantage over venv, which is that people have spent years and years writing instructions for virtualenv, and not for the cases that venv hand

• yladiz 10y ago
  In that regard, venv is better. It's better to have a single place where you install your packages rather than a few different places, especially if you're working on a team. It would be hell to have a mix, not knowing exactly which goes where or why, and then explaining to another team member your setup in a coherent manner. It's much better to just know that your packages are either global or local and no in-betweens.
  • justanotherbody 10y ago
    > It's much better to just know that your packages are either global or local and no in-betweens. The database driver and scipy are installed globally. Everything else is local to the environment. Not hell at all, especially compared to compiling numpy/scipy every time you want to spin up a venv that uses a single feature. Examples other than DB drivers and scipy exist. Compiling software isn't really that hard, but it's an unnecessary hurdle in many cases - especially when you've already bought into an OS that does binary distributions specifically so you don't have to compile anything. I'd be comfortable agreeing that any pure-python package should be venv only, but not that every package should be.