Steven D'Aprano writes: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 04:14:57PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > Steven D'Aprano writes: > > > > > by the time you have finished debugging the script, the reason for > > > creating the venv in the first place is no longer relevent. > > > > Eh? Would you be willing to unpack that reference to 'venv' > > specifically, or was that just your patent-pending snark? I can't > > recall a venv being obviated by later developments, > > You have never created a venv and then later decided that it wasn't > needed because the project was cancelled, the job fell through, somebody > solved the problem in another way, your client changed the project > specifications and you deleted the old venv and created a new one, you > decided to work on something else instead, the company went bust, > etc?
Oh, sure, that happens. If most of a code base goes away, of course so does the venv. That's actually a feature! But the *reason* for a venv in the first place is to ensure that neither the system nor the project pollutes the other with the "wrong" version of some dependency. I thought *that* was the "reason" you referred to as becoming irrelevant. > we sure are touchy about any suggestion that pip and venvs aren't > the greatest tools ever made. Eh, no, I really wanted to know if the need for isolation that venvs provide somehow goes away and under what circumstances. I have nothing invested in pip or venvs that would prevent me from adopting (or even helping to develop) something better (at least for future projects). > Here's a hint for the future. When I follow a comment with a smiley > emoticon or emoji, or *wink*, it means that my comment isn't > intended to be taken too seriously. Well, yes, that's why I asked whether it was your patent-pending snark. Thank you for confirming that it was. > especially the tendency to spend more time automating a task than will > ever be saved by the automation. LOL. All of the automation using pip and venvs that I work with has more than paid back my investment (especially those that were developed by somebody else! :-) Yet-another-Steve-who-knows-how-when-and-why-to-use-smilies _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/MGZVFLUZILV6JBG7LLJEOMVUJAFNYU7S/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
