Python 3.12.1, Windows 11: shebang line #!/usr/bin/env python3 doesn't work any more

[rbowman]

On Sun, 24 Dec 2023 22:55:34 +0000, Barry wrote:

>> On 24 Dec 2023, at 00:54, rbowman via Python-list
>> <python-list at python.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Does that work with virtualenv or conda? I'm slowly getting up to speed
>> with those.
> 
> Conda is its own thing, not need for py.exe.
> 
> Once you have created the venv you do not need py.exe as you will have
> pythob.exe in the venv bin folder.


Thanks. That's what I have been doing and have never used py.exe. For 
context Esri distributes ArcPy as a scripting language using 3.9. By 
default the base install can't be modified so if you want additional 
libraries or a tool like Spyder it has to be in a virtual.