Re:Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in...
by zahlman on Friday October 31, 2025 @03:15AM
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> The shame is ... it never had to be that way.
It isn't that way. Nothing is preventing you from running the venv's python executable directly.
But the original designer of the concept appears to have thought that activation was a useful abstraction. Setting environment variables certainly does a lot to create the feeling of being "in" the virtual environment.
It isn't that way. Nothing is preventing you from running the venv's python executable directly.
But the original designer of the concept appears to have thought that activation was a useful abstraction. Setting environment variables certainly does a lot to create the feeling of being "in" the virtual environment.