[Chicago] Question re virtualenv and production environments
D Mahoney
dan at streemit.net
Thu Nov 29 19:51:01 CET 2012
Greetings, all. I've been using Python for admin scripts and the
occasional cgi for several years now. In that time I've read about
virtualenv and played with it briefly, but haven't really explored it
very deeply.
I just started a new contract gig downtown, and I find myself working on
a RedHat box with python 2.4 installed (2.4.3). Some of the tasks I'm
working on would be simplified a bit if I could use a more up-to-date
version, like maybe 2.7. I'm about ready in install virtualenv on this
box for my development tasks, but my question is this: once I get my
code working and ready for production use, would it be an especially bad
idea to leave it in virtualenv? The machine in question is important
enough that I'm really leery of taking a chance of screwing up Python by
installing a more current python incorrectly.
Thoughts?
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