If you don't need to use multiple version of python like me, then you don't need it. Just use the built-in venv module in python 3 to create and manage virtuane

If you don't need to use multiple version of python like me, then you don't need it. Just use the built-in venv module in python 3 to create and manage virtuanenv. for example, simply run `python -m venv .venv` to create a new virtualenv in your project dir, and vscode will automatically recognize it when you add the project dir into your workspace. But having c compiler toolchain available is pretty much standard practice when using python (or nodejs, ruby, etc) because you might need to install some library that requires compilation from source (e.g. psycopg2). If you don't want that, you'll stuck with installing those 3rd party libs from your distro's repo, which might be out of date or outright missing (especially for less popular packages).