[Tutor] Can a virtual environment be renamed?

[Chris Warrick]

On 16 April 2017 at 16:45, Jim <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> My system python is 2.7.12 so I created a virtual environment using venu to
> run 3.5.2. I put it in /home/jfb/EVs/env. Now I would like to try 3.6 and
> put it in env36. Is it possible to change env to env35 for 3.5.2 without
> breaking things?

No. You need to delete your existing virtualenv and create a new one.
You can just use `pip freeze > requirements.txt` in the old one and
run `pip install -r requirements.txt` in the new one to ”move” all the
packages you had.


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