Python 3 virtualenvs

[D.M. Procida]

Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> wrote:

> In a message of Sat, 28 Nov 2015 00:37:21 +0000, D.M. Procida writes:
> >I have a new installation of Debian Jessie, with Python 2.7 and 3.4
> >installed.
> >
> >I want to use Python 3.4 by default for most things, so I want
> >virtualenv to create Python 3.4 virtualenvs unless I ask it to
> >otherwise.
> >
> >It turns out that this seems to be inordinately complex.
> >
> >The best solution I have come up with is to alias virtualenv to
> >'virtualenv -p python3.5', which seems really ugly and clunky.
> 
> This will get you python3.5 which I infinitely prefer over 3.4. 
> But you said you wanted to use 3.4 ...

Typo!

> >Then I discover things like
> ><http://askubuntu.com/questions/603935/pyvenv-vs-venv-vs-python-virtualen
> >v-vs-virtualenv-and-python-3> and realise it's not just me, it really is
> >a nasty mess and nobody seems to understand what's going on.

> What I found out.
> https://bugs.python.org/issue25151
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=732703
> https://bugs.python.org/issue25152
> https://bugs.python.org/issue25154

Good lord.

> I've long ago aliased virtualenv to v, so things aren't as clunky
> for me.

I'll stick with virtualenv as an alias to virtualenv -p python3.5.
 
Thanks,

Daniele