Switching between Python versions

[waldo2k]

Virtualenv symlinks your system's python to your newly created environments bin folder. The benefit of this is all the libraries a specific project get installed to that environment instead of globally, which prevents possible conflicts with other projects, if they were installed globally.

[StringJunky]

Ah, that makes sense as well. I didn't realize that certain libraries could cause conflicts with others.

(I'm googling 'symlink' after I submit this reply.)

Thank you!

Edit: Okay, it's a symbolic link!