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[3.11] gh-88452: Add a warning about non-portability of environments. (GH-98155) (GH-98157) #98157

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13 changes: 13 additions & 0 deletions Doc/library/venv.rst
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Expand Up @@ -85,6 +85,19 @@ Creating virtual environments
without there needing to be any reference to its virtual environment in
``PATH``.

.. warning:: Because scripts installed in environments should not expect the
environment to be activated, their shebang lines contain the absolute paths
to their environment's interpreters. Because of this, environments are
inherently non-portable, in the general case. You should always have a
simple means of recreating an environment (for example, if you have a
requirements file ``requirements.txt``, you can invoke ``pip install -r
requirements.txt`` using the environment's ``pip`` to install all of the
packages needed by the environment). If for any reason you need to move the
environment to a new location, you should recreate it at the desired
location and delete the one at the old location. If you move an environment
because you moved a parent directory of it, you should recreate the
environment in its new location. Otherwise, software installed into the
environment may not work as expected.

.. _venv-api:

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