[New-bugs-announce] [issue45501] [idea] Successfully creating a venv could print a message.

[Julien Palard]

New submission from Julien Palard <julien+python at palard.fr>:

I realized that many students get surprised by `python -m venv .venv` not printing anything, a few even think it completly failed.

I'm OK teaching them this is normal, as `mv`, `cp`, `rm`, `django-admin startproject`, ... does not print neither when they succeed.

But I fear many other Python users could be surprised too and not have a teacher around to reassure them.

I kept this as a status-quo for years but thinking of it today I though « And why not telling them how to activate the venv? »

Would'nt it be great to have:

    $ python3 -m venv .venv
    Environment created successfully, activate it using:

        source .venv/bin/activate

or

    PS C:\Users\Admin> python3 -m venv .venv
    Environment created successfully, activate it using:

        .venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1

and so on?

A `-q`/`--quiet` could be added for scripts creating venvs.

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messages: 404132
nosy: mdk
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: [idea] Successfully creating a venv could print a message.

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