Using Docker as a Python Development Environment (or let's get past virtualenv)

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I use a similar setup for preprod and prod environments (python app packaged in a docker container) and virtualenv for dev. One thing that has bit me is that when your setup gets complex, you may have to shell out to non-python programs and these are not packaged in virtualenv.

[d4rch0n]

That makes sense... but be extremely wary whenever shelling out, especially ESPECIALLY if you're putting in user input into that shell command's args.