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Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training pytest book Patreon Supporters Special guest: Jennifer Stark - @_JAStark & guest on talkpython.fm/259 Watch on YouTube Brian #1: Do you really need a virtualenv? Frost Ming doesn’t think so, based on the article You don't really need a virtualenv The link slug is “introducing-pdm”, which I think would be a better title, but the first did work to get people to talk about it. Also, “Try PEP 582 today” may have been appropriate. Teaching new people is a problem: Telling them to first type python -m venv venv Then type source venv/bin/activate or . venv/bin/activate Unless you’re on windows, then type venv\scripts\activate.bat Then type pip install -r requirements.txt Yeah. It’s not pretty, not fun, and good luck not having anyone ask questions about why this is necessary. Also the Python version is specified in the venv. So if you upgrade Python versions, what happens to existing venvs? The article also discusses level