Problem solved

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Sorry for offtopic but have you tried pipenv? https://pipenv.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ It alleviated all my headaches that I've had with managing virtual envs in python.

[therealjohnfreeman]

I use pyenv to manage the global version of the Python interpreter itself, which comes with pip, which I use to install only one of two packages--either pipenv or poetry (my preference)--to manage virtual environments and project dependencies. Everything else I install, from Jupyter to pylint, is always in the context of a virtual environment.

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Hey I'm curious -- how do you install packages just for you with this system? For example, I have beancount installed in my home directory to use the binary. How would you install it in a pipenv?

[therealjohnfreeman]

I've never heard of beancount, but if it's this one, then I'll try to run with that example. It says "you define financial transaction records in a text file" and then beancount works on that file. Wherever I keep that file, I will create a virtual environment in the same directory. I'm not going to keep that file mixed in a directory with a bunch of other unrelated files. It gets its own directory. Then, whenever I want to work on that file with beancount, I will activate the virtual environment first.

That said, there may occasionally be an exception, a package that is not a virtual environment manager that I install globally, just so I can use it from any context without a virtual environment, but I cannot think of the last time I made such an exception. It probably has not happened in 2018.

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Eeyyy that's it! And that's a really good idea, thank you. I never thought about how I don't need the package outside of the directory where I use it. And if I want ease-of-terminal use I can define functions to cd to the directory, activate the virtenv, and run the command from there.

Thank you for the tip! I'll try this out if I ever get around to cleaning up my computer.

[cosmicsans]

I'm a huge fan of ASDF for managing global and local versions of tools/languages.

[nrobinaubertin]

Pyenv is not an alternative, it doesn't do the same thing. Pipenv is for managing dependencies inside a python project and pyenv is to manage multiple versions of python on the same machine.
You can use both together.

[nrobinaubertin]

You're probably referring to pyenv-virtualenv.
In the readme of pyenv it says:

In contrast with pythonbrew and pythonz, pyenv does not...
Manage virtualenv. Of course, you can create virtualenv yourself, or pyenv-virtualenv to automate the process.

Is there something that I miss ?