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>I agree. The first 20 or so times I heard about virtualenv my thought was, "this must be for the people stuck using windoze or OSX that can't just sudo apt-get install python-whatever."

Nothing to do with OS X or Windows specifically. Actually Linux is well known for having problems if you replace the system Python, because a lot of tools depend on it (Debian especially). And apt-get doesn't get you automated multiple isolated environments with all your dependencies...




Well I think you've just said the same thing as your parent. He says he used to think apt-get made virtualenv unnecessary, now he doesn't.




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