I was just talking to a friend of mine about Python stuff, as we've both just started using it for some library-related projects.
We we're looking into the environment stuff when it comes to python, and I didn't realize that there were so many ways to go! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41573587/what-is-the-difference-between-venv-pyvenv-pyenv-virtualenv-virtualenvwrappe My two-cents is that virtualenv seems fairly easy to use, is fairly popular, and gives you a sandboxed python environment. --Ray On Mar 7, 2018 8:57 PM, "Peter Murray" <jes...@dltj.org> wrote: > For what it's worth, I recently ran across this article about setting up > sane Python development environments: > > https://jacobian.org/writing/python-environment-2018/ > > > Peter > > On Mar 7, 2018, 4:54 PM -0500, Jay Luker <jay.lu...@gmail.com>, wrote: > > I would add a recommendation for pyenv as a way to manage multiple > versions > > of python on a machine. Very helpful, particularly if you need to run > > tests under multiple versions with something like tox. > > > > https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv > > > > —jay > > > > On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 3:35 PM Ed Summers <e...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > > > I agree. Third party support for Python3 is pretty good now. But if you > > > have any dependencies you know you're going to need it's a good idea to > > > check beforehand. > > > > > > There's also the six module if you want to be able to say you support 2 > > > and 3, and want a nice way of papering over the differences. > > > > > > http://six.readthedocs.io/ > > > > > > //Ed > > > > > > > On Mar 7, 2018, at 3:31 PM, Tod Olson <t...@uchicago.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > > I'd suggest Python 3. > > > > > > > > There are mechanisms for managing virtual environments for Python, > like > > > penv, which make it easy to install and switch between versions without > > > confusing the system. > > > > > > > > -Tod > > > >
