[Python-ideas] venv *is* provided in the standard Python install on Debian/Ubuntu

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 6:24 AM, Stephan Houben <stephanh42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Antoine,
>
> The venv module is included,
> however the pyvenv script is in a separate package
> python3.5-venv .
>
> By the way, I was totally confused by the following text form the doc.
>
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html
>
> ========
> Deprecated since version 3.6: pyvenv was the recommended tool for creating
> virtual environments for Python 3.3 and 3.4, and is deprecated in Python
> 3.6.
>
> Changed in version 3.5: The use of venv is now recommended for creating
> virtual environments.
>
> ========

Not sure where you're reading that. I'm seeing:

"""
Note
The pyvenv script has been deprecated as of Python 3.6 in favor of
using python3 -m venv to help prevent any potential confusion as to
which Python interpreter a virtual environment will be based on.
"""

I think that's pretty clear. "python3 -m venv env" is the standard and
recommended way to spin up a virtual environment.

ChrisA