🔒 How to deal with annoying paths in (now required) virtual environments?

[sonic breach]

pip in recent Linux now refuses to work

If you wish to install a non-Debian-packaged Python package, create a virtual environment using python3 -m venv path/to/venv.
Then use path/to/venv/bin/python and path/to/venv/bin/pip. Make sure you have python3-full installed.

what is a good way to avoid typing this annoyingly long qualified paths?
I though about ./bin/pip but that will break as soon as I am in some directory within
Having different path to python in every project is also really annoying.

At that point I am considering making one shared virtual environment for all my projects and making aliases, and working as I worked before.

[copper marsh]

@sonic breach

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[normal coyote]

you can do source <path/to/venv/bin/activate, from then on pip and python will refer to that environment

generally people will use a packaging/environment manager (like poetry or uv) that handles this for them

[sonic breach]

I am more and more confused - https://docs.astral.sh/uv/#highlights self-describes itself as replacing pip rather than using pip underneath

[normal coyote]

yeah, you wouldn't be using pip for a project if you were using uv

[sonic breach]

Can you have uv-managed project and pip-managaed projects on the same system?

Or will they conflict with each other?

[normal coyote]

yes, since they'll be in different environments

[sonic breach]

🐍 Installs and manages Python versions.
and these will not conflict with system Python?

[sonic breach]

how it even works? is it modifying global bash aliases or what?

[normal coyote]

no, just puts packages into your site packages presumably

[normal coyote]

it won't

[junior sparrow]

It modifies $PATH for that shell so that it looks in the venv/bin before anything else, and thus runs the venv python if you type python, and so forth.

[opaque trout]

I'd recommend using uv for everything.

[copper marsh]

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