>That said, he made a good point about non-python dependencies. Does he? I have about 5, all of which I can install with one line with apt-get. Only a few libr

>That said, he made a good point about non-python dependencies. Does he? I have about 5, all of which I can install with one line with apt-get. Only a few libraries have external dependencies anyway. I could understand for projects/frameworks that require extensive specialized configuration/package installations that might interfere with other things on your system. You don't really have that problem with virtualenv, though. It's 90% isolated on it's own.