[Tutor] Can a virtual environment be renamed?

[Jim]

On 04/16/2017 10:10 AM, Chris Warrick wrote:
> On 16 April 2017 at 16:45, Jim <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>> My system python is 2.7.12 so I created a virtual environment using venu to
>> run 3.5.2. I put it in /home/jfb/EVs/env. Now I would like to try 3.6 and
>> put it in env36. Is it possible to change env to env35 for 3.5.2 without
>> breaking things?
>
> No. You need to delete your existing virtualenv and create a new one.
> You can just use `pip freeze > requirements.txt` in the old one and
> run `pip install -r requirements.txt` in the new one to ”move” all the
> packages you had.
>
>

Thanks Chris. I thought that would be the answer but wanted to check 
before I spent a lot of time trying to do something that was not possible.

Virtual environments tend to confuse me. My system is Mint 18.1 with 
2.7.12 & 3.5.2 installed. So I would have to download a tar file of 3.6, 
then build it and then use it's version of venv to create a virtual 
environment to try 3.6. Is that correct?

Thanks,  Jim