New submission from Laura Creighton: https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html nowhere explicitly states how you are supposed to get a venv with a particular python version. Users of virtualenv will be looking for a -p option.
The doc says: "Creation of virtual environments is done by executing the pyvenv script:" which undoubtably works if you _have_ a pyenv script, but I don't have one. It is nowhere stated where I should find one. Fortunately, I can also run things as some_python_version -m venv myvenv This, everybody is able to do. (However, it may not work, see issue 25151 -- but forget that for now.) This is something that everybody ought to be able to do. Thus I propose either deleting the mention of pyenv, (if it is exactly equivalent to running python -m venv) or expanding the section, indicating where the script lives, and why you might want to run it instead of python -m venv. Then, before the line: The command, if run with -h, will show the available options: add the line: The version of python used in the venv is determined at this time. If the default version of python is not the one desired, use: /path/to/the/python/I/want -m venv myenv instead. (Plus, if there is a way to do this with pyenv, then list that part here). ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Distutils, Documentation messages: 250891 nosy: docs@python, dstufft, eric.araujo, lac priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: venv documentation doesn't tell you how to specify a particular version of python versions: Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25152> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
