On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Vinay Sajip <[email protected]> wrote: > You're right in terms of the current Python ecosystem and 3.x adoption, > because > of course this approach requires support from Python itself in terms of its > site.py code. However, virtual environments have a utility beyond supporting > older Pythons on newer OSes, since another common use case is having different > library environments sandboxed from each other on different projects, even if > all those projects are using Python 3.3+.
Yeah, even if the innate one struggles on later OS releases that changed things in a backwards incompatible way, it will still be valuable on the OS versions that are around at the time that version of Python gets released. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
