[issue24356] venv documentation incorrect / misleading

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[issue24356] venv documentation incorrect / misleading

Steve Dower added the comment: New changeset 83b449d754f4da3be107b508392ef5180f105c8b by Steve Dower in branch '3.7': bpo-24356: Specify which Python binary will be used with venv (GH-6589) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/83b449d754f4da3be107b508392ef5180f105c8b --

[issue24356] venv documentation incorrect / misleading

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[issue24356] venv documentation incorrect / misleading

Steve Dower added the comment: New changeset 50326927465c3f5c6c0168fc43310c8e97db0a47 by Steve Dower (Elena Oat) in branch 'master': bpo-24356: Specify which Python binary will be used with venv (GH-6589) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/50326927465c3f5c6c0168fc43310c8e97db0a47

[issue24356] venv documentation incorrect / misleading

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[issue24356] venv documentation incorrect / misleading

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[issue24356] venv documentation incorrect / misleading

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[issue24356] venv documentation incorrect / misleading

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[issue24356] venv documentation incorrect / misleading

Tal Einat added the comment: See also the recent addition of a section on venv to the Tutorial section of the docs (Doc/tutorial/venv.rst, issue23891). The wording there and in the module docs should at least be consistent with each other. -- nosy: +taleinat

[issue24356] venv documentation incorrect / misleading

Graham Oliver added the comment: See also https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.python/BUmyc_hzAsA/Nx5QgT1gzYEJ -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue24356 ___

[issue24356] venv documentation incorrect / misleading

New submission from Graham Oliver: See my question here https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.python/BUmyc_hzAsA In particular Carl Meyer's response https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.python/BUmyc_hzAsA/-cT-N-g_LL4J I am not sure what is possible with venv but I would suggest

[issue24356] venv documentation incorrect / misleading

Carol Willing added the comment: David, Sounds good to me. I'll submit a patch with Graham's suggested text and move the See also box up right after the PEP reference. Thanks, Carol -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue24356] venv documentation incorrect / misleading

R. David Murray added the comment: Hmm. We don't in general mention 2.7 in the python3 docs (in fact I found only one mention of it, in the logging package docs). I suppose this might be confusing enough to warrant it. But it might be better to rewrite that sentence to make it clear that

[issue24356] venv documentation incorrect / misleading

R. David Murray added the comment: I think Graham's formulation provides more information. venv already has a new in python 3.3 at the top (just before that sentence), so putting that in the text feels redundant. On the other hand, the current placement of the 'see also' box looks odd,

[issue24356] venv documentation incorrect / misleading

Carol Willing added the comment: Current version Each virtual environment has its own Python binary (allowing creation of environments with various Python versions) and can have its own independent set of installed Python packages in its site directories. Another suggested revision Since its

[issue24356] venv documentation incorrect / misleading

Graham Oliver added the comment: ok current version Each virtual environment has its own Python binary (allowing creation of environments with various Python versions) and can have its own independent set of installed Python packages in its site directories. Suggested Alternative Each virtual