Message 250899 - Python tracker

Message250899

Author	lac
Recipients	docs@python, dstufft, eric.araujo, lac, r.david.murray
Date	2015-09-17.16:51:34
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Message-id	<1442508694.55.0.710819078935.issue25152@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The problem is that people who run into venv will think that it is virtualenv made into part of the standard library. Thus they will have a great expectation that there will be a -p option to specify the python version that they want and that they can get 2.7. As Josh Billings (American humourist) wrote: "It ain't ignorance causes so much trouble; it's folks knowing so much that ain't so." A 'this is not virtualenv' message would be useful.

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The problem is that people who run into venv will think that it is
virtualenv made into part of the standard library.  Thus they
will have a great expectation that there will be a -p option to
specify the python version that they want and that they can get 2.7.

As Josh Billings (American humourist) wrote:
"It ain't ignorance causes so much trouble; it's folks knowing so much that ain't so."

A 'this is not virtualenv' message would be useful.

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