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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@brettcannon two reasons:

1. I frequently use environments outside of the root directory for a project. `workon project` saves me from needing to remember where I am to source the venv.
2. Relatedly, when I use `git worktree` I don't need to have a venv/ dir per root.

Dec 20, 2022 at 7:47pmWeb