It’s not that they don’t work with the system Python, it’s that they don’t want to share the same global package namespace as the system Python. If you create a

It’s not that they don’t work with the system Python, it’s that they don’t want to share the same global package namespace as the system Python. If you create a virtual environment with your system Python, it’ll work just fine. (This is distinct from Rust, where there’s no global package namespace at all.)