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    5 months ago

    If using pyenv to support multiple python versions, when creating venvs, make sure to pass --copies to it.

    % python3 -m venv venv --copies
    

    Ordinarily, venv uses symbolic links back to the current version of the python binary. A lot of tools and IDEs don’t traverse symbolic links. That flag actually copies the real binaries over to the venv.

    This avoids a metric ton of hard-to-diagnose misery later on.