[Python-Dev] Proposal for virtualenv functionality in Python

Fri Feb 19 20:59:20 CET 2010

On Feb 19, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Le 2010年2月19日 13:49:23 -0500, Ian Bicking a écrit :
>>>> * I'd rather ~/env/bin/python be a symlink instead of copying it.
>> How about simply adding a --prefix argument to the interpreter. Then 
> virtualenv can create a "python" script that simply adds --prefix and 
> forwards all the arguments to the real python executable.
> Or am I missing something?

It couldn't be a shell script, as they wouldn't work as shebang line interpreters for other python scripts.
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Philip Jenvey