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Use venv instead of virtualenv if available

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I’m wondering if it’s worth using venv if available instead of virtualenv. That would also skip having to install virtualenv in the first place.

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Created 7 years ago
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kennethreitzcommented, Jan 23, 2017

i don’t think so, i prefer using the virtualenv command personally

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bulletmarkcommented, Sep 14, 2017

I urge @kennethreitz to reconsider his comment here. Using python3 -m venv instead of virtualenv is recommended by the standard documentation. I am personally put off using pipenv because it uses virtualenv. I only use Python 3 and only use venv nowadays.

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