How to create development Python environment on Linux.

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 4:26:23 AM UTC+12, Zachary Ware wrote:
> Not what you asked for, but I would encourage you to look into whether
> it's possible for you to use Python 3 instead of Python 2 for what
> you're doing.  If it's possible, starting with Python 3 will save you
> several headaches in the future.

Let me add my vote for this.

> sys.prefix is baked in at compile time of the python interpreter ...

    ldo at theon:~> ~/virtualenv/jupyter/bin/python -c "import sys; print(sys.prefix)"
    /home/ldo/virtualenv/jupyter