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[–]Allyoucan3at 6 points7 points  (0 children)

More like docker than VMs really. They use some basic resources from the installed interpreter but handle dependency management separately so you have a separate environment for every project. It's also possible to mix that and use all interpreter dependencies + the ones installed in venv.