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I've never quite forgiven python for the time I tried to update it using yum, it failed which is then broke yum - not a fun place to end up. Treating python as

• zahlman 11mo ago
  > Treating python as a project level dependency rather than a system level dependency Nobody is treating Python as a project level dependency. Your Linux distro treats it as a system level dependency, which is exactly why you encountered the problem you did. When you create a virtual environment, that does not install a Python version. It just makes symlinks to a base Python. Building Python from source, and setting it up in a way that doesn't interfere with the package manager's space and will cause no problems, is easy on major distros. I have access to over a dozen builds right now, on Mint which is not exactly a "power user" distro (I didn't want to think about it too much when I initially switched from Windows).