On 2023-09-27, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 12:42 PM Jon Ribbens via Python-list ><python-list@python.org> wrote: >> On 2023-09-27, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > 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 >> ... >> > Not sure what this really means, nor how to get python to be in my venv. >> >> WHy do you want python to be "in your venv"? > > Isn't that the entire point of a venv? To have a completely self > contained env? So if someone messes with the system python it will not > break code running in the venv.
The main point of the venv is to isolate the installed packages, rather than Python itself. I'm a bit surprised your symlinks are as shown above though - mine link from python to python3.11 to /usr/bin/python3.11, so it wouldn't change the version of python used even if I installed a different system python version. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
