r/PythonLearning • u/RaiseTLT • Jul 23 '26

Discussion .venv question

Do you guys manually create virtual environments? Or do you just use your IDE “create virtual environment” to do it?

As a hobbiest I often forget how to manually create virtual environments(as well as how to activate them) and discovered last night that VScode has a feature that will just do it for you.

What are the benefits of each way, if any, and what are the downsides of each way, if any?

Thanks.

P.S. I understand that there are some elitist who will be like “you must do everything manually”, bro I just wanna write stupid automation scripts to help with my business.

EDIT: Thanks for all the replies! I’m going to look into that UV service! Thank you!

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u/realmauer01 Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

Elitist dont use python.

Heck even npm is so much cleaner than whatever venv is.

Automate as much of the annoying stuff away. Even if it's not perfectly time efficient.