Ned Deily <nad@python.org> added the comment: The behavior of venv has been changed in Python 3.9 to always create a "pythonM.N" link in the venv bin directory, in addition to "pythonM", regardless of how venv was invoked. ---------- nosy: +ned.deily resolution: -> duplicate stage: needs patch -> resolved status: open -> closed superseder: -> shebanged scripts can escape from `venv` depending on how it was created versions: +Python 3.9 -Python 3.6, Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue32444> _______________________________________