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Asked: 2019-09-11 10:08:59 +0800 CST

What exactly is virtualenv.py?

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I know of virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper and .py stands for python. When I run virtualenv in PyCharm IDE this comes up:

Usage: virtualenv.py

I just recently came across this and tried search for it but I couldn't find it. What exactly is virtualenv.py and is there any difference to it compared to just to virtualenv and virtualwrapper? I don't have pip3 installed for both the software.

python virtualenv

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    The virtualenv.py is the actual program written in python. If you install it via pip or pip3, it automatically installs it as virtualenv and we can use it. However, here it seems that virtualenv is just calling the virtualenv.py and hence you are getting that in the usage section.

    Here is the source code of the virtualenv.py

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