<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body><div><div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">"how to call the container for the libraries, the one thing providing the environment?"<br><br>In Visual Studio we call these Environments (in the source they're still referred to as Interpreters). A "virtual environment" is just a specific type of environment (one that inherits a stdlib and/or packages), as is an isolated environment (hosted in an app, or a conda env). They all specify a Python version and concrete versions of libraries - something directly executable, not something that needs to be actualised before use.<br><br>Not sure that we need an official term, but the venv docs likely have or need a definition to work with.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br><br>Top-posted from my Windows Phone</div></div><div dir="ltr"><hr><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:guettliml@thomas-guettler.de">Thomas Güttler</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Sent: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">5/17/2016 4:28</span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">To: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:python-ideas@python.org">python-ideas</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[Python-ideas] Lib vs ( App | Project | ... )</span><br><br></div>This blog post from Donald Stufft explains the difference between<br>a Library and a Application.<br><br> https://caremad.io/2013/07/setup-vs-requirement/<br><br><br>The term "Library" is well known - ok<br><br>But how to call the container for the libraries, the one thing providing the environment?<br><br>Donald Stufft uses the term "Application"<br><br>I would like an official term defined by the python docs.<br><br>What do you think?<br><br>Regards,<br> Thomas Güttler<br><br><br>-- <br>Thomas Guettler http://www.thomas-guettler.de/<br>_______________________________________________<br>Python-ideas mailing list<br>Python-ideas@python.org<br>https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas<br>Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/</body></html>