Virtual Python¶
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Currently, virtualenv is a separate application, allowing virtualization of Python installations. For Python 3.3, a built-in mechanism is being developed.
Possible GSoC projects:
Creating a test suite for this virtualization mechanism.
Building the standard-library module that will actually create virtual environments, by copying or symlinking the python binary to a given location and placing a default virtualization config file near it.
Important background information to review if proposing to work on this:
Distutils-SIG mailing list threads mentioning “pythonv,” beginning with “early preview of pythonv.”
The work-in-progress repository at Bitbucket and its open issues.
This PyCon presentation on how virtualenv works.