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Support for Python 2 virtualenvs

See original GitHub issue

Would you consider adding support for Python 2 virtualenvs if I’m contributing a PR?

There are various reasons for having that feature. E.g. packages which are Python 2 only (#65) or if you want to have something like flake8 for Python 2 and for Python 3 available.

This shouldn’t be to hard:

use virtualenv instead of venv in create_venv if Python 2 is the base Python
fix get_binaries_script so it is 2/3 compatible
add a --binary-suffix flag which is passed to expose_binaries_globally so you can install the same binary from multiple venvs (so maybe create a flake8-2.exe). To make upgrade work we have to store the suffix in a config file. But this might be an interesting feature even without Python 2 virtualenvs.

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Created 5 years ago
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Top GitHub Comments

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stanislaw55commented, Jun 5, 2020

Hi, I would be very interested in having support in pipx for Python 2. Isolating old apps is in my opinion perfect use case for pipx.
Does anyone have some info about this feature?

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itsayellowcommented, Nov 19, 2020

Since Python 2 is EOL, this isn’t something we have the time or inclination to support in pipx.

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