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

Michel Desmoulin desmoulinmichel at gmail.com
Tue Nov 14 01:39:52 EST 2017 
Le 12/11/2017 à 19:38, Antoine Pitrou a écrit :
> On Sun, 12 Nov 2017 12:20:45 +0000
> Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, not exactly. Do you do python -m venv, or py -x.x -m venv or
>>> pythonx -m venv ? Wait, it's not installed by default on debian.  
>>
>> Seriously? Debian don't provide venv in the standard Python install?
>> That's just broken.
> 
> Frankly, I don't know where the current discussion comes from, but on
> two recent Debian and Ubuntu setups, I get:
> 
> $ dpkg -S /usr/lib/python3.5/venv/__init__.py
> libpython3.5-stdlib:amd64: /usr/lib/python3.5/venv/__init__.py
> 
> 
> Which, for the uninitiated, means "the venv module is provided by the
> Debian/Ubuntu package named libpython3.5-stdlib".  That package is, in
> turn, a dependency of the "python3.5" package.
> 

Screenshot from yesterday morning. On Ubuntu 16.04, LTS of most popular
Linux distro based on debian: we can see venv is clearly missing.

On the bright side, it does give you an error message. We should have
that for pip as well !

Unfortunatly, the message gives you a wrong advice, as you had to run the:

sudo apt-get install python3.6-venv

command and not:

sudo apt-get install python-venv

And my students were stucks.

And this was a traning with professional adults java devs. Imagine total
beginers...
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