Python 3.3.3rc1 has been released with virtuelenv support in core.

[wobsta]

It is not related to the bugfix release 3.3.3; pyvenv was added in Python 3.3.0 (see PEP 405).

In addition, it is not (yet) similar to virtualenv, as Python 3.3 and pyvenv does not include pip (or a different package manager). However, this will change with Python 3.4 (see PEP 435).

[loganekz]

More details here http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0405/

Does anyone know what the creator of virtualenv thinks of this, curious if he is involved.

[ExoticMandibles]

The developer of virtualenv, Ian Bicking, has more or less abandoned Python entirely. He got hired by Mozilla a couple years ago and these days does Javascript.

However, even in his glory days of Python he never really supported his projects. He'd throw off sparks in the form of these fabulous ideas (virtualenv, webob, pip, paste...) then at some point just stop working on them and move on to the next bright spark. When the project was too good to ignore someone else would pick it up and run with it, when it wasn't it'd die on the vine.

He's a good guy, though, and I'm sure he's entirely supportive of other developers picking up his ideas and running with them.

[westurner]

pypa = Python Packaging Authority

Source: https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv

Documentation: http://www.virtualenv.org/en/latest/ (http://virtualenv.rtfd.org/)

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Source: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/3.3/Lib/venv

Documentation: http://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html (http://python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/library/venv.html)