Pyvenv puts both Python 2 and Python 3 in the same environment. Shocked!

Paul Rudin paul.nospam at rudin.co.uk
Wed Dec 21 02:21:54 EST 2016


Malik Rumi <malik.a.rumi at gmail.com> writes:

> I just created a new venv using pyvenv from a 2.7 install. Now I am shocked to
> see that I can get both 2.7 and 3.4 in this same venv:
>
> (memory) malikarumi at Tetuoan2:~/Projects/cannon/New2.7Projects/memory$ python
> Python 2.7.12 (default, Nov 19 2016, 06:48:10) 
> [GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> exit()
> (memory) malikarumi at Tetuoan2:~/Projects/cannon/New2.7Projects/memory$ python3
> Python 3.4.2 (default, Apr 17 2015, 18:47:05) 
> [GCC 4.8.2] on linux
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

A venv doesn't remove everything from your path. Presumably python3 is
some system installed python. What does "which python3" say?

If you just invoke "python" then you'll get the venv one.





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