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Virtual Python Environment builder

10 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2012-06-07 · latest 2025-08-06

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  1. If you see a wart report it: https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/
    comment by esafak · 2025-08-06 · in Software Rot
  2. …It's true that Python 3 ships with `venv` but I think `virtualenv` offers some additional features. https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv
    comment by jvolkman · 2023-03-13 · in How Python virtual environments work
  3. …repos into temporary directories. There used to be a "--relocatable" switch, but it's gone now. https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/1549 Edit: Ah, yep, somehow read this as virtualenv.
    comment by tyingq · 2022-05-10 · in Managing Python Versions with Pyenv
  4. …in on the virtualenv repo in the hope that one day we can have activate.fish emit an event - https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/1456
    comment by drcongo · 2022-03-19 · in Fish 3.4.0
  5. …an official solution. [1]: https://github.com/pypa/pipenv [2]: https://github.com/pypa/pip [3]: https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv
    comment by divbzero · 2021-04-08 · in How to make a Python package in 2021
  6. …humans, but with CI systems installing things in weird deep directories (e.g. virtualenvs ... see https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/596 ). So the old adage about glass houses and stones is still good advice ;)
    comment by delsarto · 2019-12-18 · in One million lines of code ought to be enough for anybody
  7. …but virtualenv, like pip, is not part of the core language. Its developed exclusively by pypa. https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv
    comment by devxpy · 2019-02-15 · in PEP 582 – Python local packages directory
  8. …Needless to say, this is well overdue. [0]: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/3329/ [1]: https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/4#issuecomment-966...
    comment by brbsix · 2016-07-08 · in Release of IPython 5.0
  9. I agree with your point. But virtualenv has support for fish: . your_env/bin/activate.fish https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/blob/develop/virtualenv_e...
    comment by ash · 2012-06-07 · in Fish: Finally, a command line shell for the 90s