Brett CannonDec 20, 2022
For those of you who install your virtual environments into a global directory (e.g. virtualenvwrapper users, `$WORKON_HOME`), what's the primary reason you do that instead locally into your workspace (e.g. `.venv` directory next to your code)?
Easy to delete all environments
7.4%
Environment sharing/reuse
24.2%
No reason/habit/tool default
52.6%
Other (w/ follow-up comment to explain)
15.8%
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Show threadSimon Willison
@brettcannon I keep all of my active projects in a Dropbox folder, and I don't want the virtual environments to get backed up there - so I use "pipenv shell" for them purely as a tool to keep the virtual environments in a separate are of my disk where Dropbox can't see them
Dec 20, 2022 at 6:53pmWeb
Show threadSimon WillisonDec 20, 2022
@brettcannon Dropbox here is acting as my insurance policy against my laptop being stolen before I've managed to commit and push to GitHub!