On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28 April 2016 at 11:11, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 09:57:19AM +0100, Oscar Benjamin wrote: >> >> You know, some day I must learn why people use virtual environments. Its >> a total mystery to me. It makes a sort-of sense to me if you're talking >> about old versions of Python before per-user site-packages were added, >> but that's been available since version 2.6. So I don't get it. >
I work with Django. If I have a project that was written with, say django 1.4, and it works I can leave that code to run in a virtual environment that uses django 1.4. Then I can create another environment for a new project that uses django 1.9. If I loaded the new version of django as a system level package, this would break the first project. -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com/blog http://cc-baseballstats.info/stats/birthdays _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
