On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 11:30:38AM +1100, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info>
wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 12:45:42AM +0100, Oleg Broytman wrote:
>
> > > Won't that create a virtual environment using Python3 on Windows and
> > > using Python2 most other places, which is exactly the problem Fred is
> > > having?
> >
> > Depends on how literally one reads ``python -m venv``.
>
> I read it as what you wrote, should I have read it as something else?
As a template.
> Fred is explicitly asking about the problem with having to sometimes use
> python and sometimes python3, and your answer is to tell him to
> sometimes use python and sometimes use python3?
Once for every venv created, not once for every script being run.
> > Python virtualenv is a development tool but not a distribution or
> > a deployment tool.
>
> Fred is discussing the problems he is having with distribution and
> deployment, not development.
IMO the issue is in not following the best practices. Distribute wheels
or freezed binaries, not just drop scripts unto users.
> His issue is that "python" means different
> things on different machines and different users.
This part is not solvable. Python **means** different things on
different machines and different users.
> --
> Steven
Oleg.
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