Graham Wideman added the comment: Additionally on the subject of venv docs: I would encourage making it more clear regarding how activate changes the user's PATH. Both http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0405/ and http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/venv.html talk about how activate adds the activated python binary to the path, but doesn't mention what path: The one for the current console session? The system PATH environment variable (Windows) or one of the bash startup scripts (unix)? This is important, because it determines how far-reaching is activation of a particular virtual environment. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18939> _______________________________________