Python 3 virtualenvs

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:32:27 -0700, Carl Meyer writes:
>Hi Laura,

>I don't know what you mean by this. Venv is intended to do _exactly_
>what virtualenv does, only better. Unless by "what virtualenv does" you
>mean "also support Python 2."

That is exactly what I mean.

>> I think it is only meant to be used by people who want to install
>> packages but not site-wide, but I am not sure about that.
>
>I don't know what you mean by this either. Isn't the ability to "install
>packages but not site-wide" precisely what virtualenv (and venv) give you?

I rarely use it for that.  What I nearly always want is different
python interpreters.  CPython, PyPy, Jython for anything from 2.6 to
3.6.

Laura