I was under the impression that in a venv the python used would be in the venv's bin dir. But in my venvs I see this in the bin dirs:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 larrymartell larrymartell 7 Sep 27 11:21 python -> python3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 larrymartell larrymartell 16 Sep 27 11:21 python3 -> /usr/bin/python3 Googling this I read: The presence of symbolic links like python and python3 in the bin directory of your virtual environment pointing to the system Python executable (/usr/bin/python) suggests that the virtual environment was created using the system Python interpreter rather than a standalone Python installation. This can happen if you create a virtual environment using a system-wide Python interpreter, and the virtual environment inherits some of the symbolic links or shortcuts from the system Python installation. In this case, your virtual environment is not fully isolated because it still relies on the system Python interpreter. Not sure what this really means, nor how to get python to be in my venv. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
