Python 3 virtualenvs

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Sun, 29 Nov 2015 13:19:46 +0100, Lele Gaifax writes:
>Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet at unequivocal.co.uk> writes:
>
>> On 2015-11-28, D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address at apple-juice.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is something else required?
>>
>> Debian's package management is mysterious and apparently bizarre
>> and frankly in respect to Python, not very good.
>
>I do not agree with you on the quality of Python support on Debian systems,
>but I think Daniele is missing the package "pythonX.Y-venv": they install the
>needed stuff, and in particular /usr/bin/pyvenv-X-Y.
>
>ciao, lele.

No, Pyvenv is precisely what Daniele can not use.
The problem is that venv does not come with a big sign saying

ONLY FOR PYTHON 3.x
ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT WORK FOR BUILDING 2.7 VIRTUALENVS
USE virtualenv INSTEAD for Python 2.7

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which means you can waste a whole lot of time finding this out
the hard way.

Laura