Python virtual environments

Posted Jun 15, 2018 10:32 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Python virtual environments by ceplm
Parent article: Python virtual environments

> And why not to use packages from the distribution?

Not everything is packaged by distributions and available in the latest version. Pip is unaware of distribution installed version and will overwrite it if a module is a dependency and vice versa.