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		killjoywashere on March 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Python virtual environments work I didn’t realize venv was part of the standard library. If that’s the case, how is it that conda even exists? Anybody got a good history of this?

int_19h on March 14, 2023 | [–]

conda can install things other than Python packages. C++ compilers, for example, or native libraries that Python packages depend on.

randoglando on March 14, 2023 | [–]

venv is part of the standard library from Python 3. It's not in Python 2.

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