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" <[log in to unmask]> 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 <[log in to unmask]>, 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 <[log in to unmask]> 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 <[log in to unmask]> 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
> > >
>