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Jeez just clone a venv with venv cloning tools


You mean `python -m venv`? Because that's literally that with just as little effort, and then you copy requirements.txt, but the whole point is that in 2023, this should not be necessary and the continued insistence by both python and specifically venv maintainers that it somehow needs to be this way, is insane. And telling people that they should just use clone tools is equally insane when we could just...

...you know...

...fix virtual environments?


No there is a whole python module for cloning venvs.


Which serves to highlight the insanity of it all? How is having a separate module for that not even worse than, as OP suggested - fixing virtual environments?




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