On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 12:32:06 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13 November 2017 at 04:38, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Nov 2017 12:20:45 +0000 > > Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@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 > > The discussion comes from the fact that even though the code is > present it doesn't actually work: [...]
Wow. I had forgotten Debian could be such a user-hostile distribution. I'm not sure what the reason would be to use it as a basis for a training course in Python programming, then (other than the teacher having their own ideological preferences). Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
