Hello everyone,
I'm currently creating virtual environments with the venv module included in
Python ("python -m venv <venv_name>"). I've noticed that the environment is not
always consistent when using the same base interpreter with different names.
When I use the alias python3.n (python3.6 / python3.7 / python3.8) to create
the environment like this example :
python3.7 -m venv venv37
The environment is created with 3 links to the python binary :
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 21 nov. 17:29 python -> python3.7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 21 nov. 17:29 python3 -> python3.7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 21 nov. 17:29 python3.7 ->
/place/to/real/bin/python3.7
But when I use the bare python interpreter (python without version number in
its name) like this :
python -m venv venv37
The environment is only created with 2 links to the python binary :
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 21 nov. 17:33 python -> /place/to/real/bin/python
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 21 nov. 17:33 python3 -> python
The python3.7 link is missing. This behavior is not observed with the pip
installer which is always shipped in 3 flavors (pip, pip3, pip3.7)
Beside how this is coded, is there any functionnal reason to explain this
behavior ? Shouldn't the 3 links be always created, regardless of which alias
is used ?
Best regards,
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Emmanuel Coirier
Informatique CDC
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