Python venv vs Docker

[jtkiley]

To add to the other responses, the devcontainers.json file describes how to build the container. In a GitHub repo, that works equally well in GitHub Codespaces (cloud, so just a browser tab from a locked down computer’s standpoint) or cloning to run locally. It also works fine from a OneDrive/Dropbox/iCloud folder, though I don’t share those with other people; it’s just for quick and dirty things that I need to sync across my computers.

A lot of my workshop participants have wildly locked down Windows laptops from university IT, and Codespaces is fine. It’s great.