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The discussion here has quickly gotten out of hand and at the risk of causing more confusion I would like to point out that pipenv(http://docs.pipenv.org/en/latest/) seems to be the officially recommended Python packaging tool now[1], though venv and pip work too.

[1] -- (https://packaging.python.org/new-tutorials/installing-and-us...)

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We are talking about packaging tools now?

Kindly don't shoot the messenger(i.e. me) but pipenv does the work of pip + virtualenv + requirements.txt so packaging tool seems like a good name for it. Virtual environments aren't a lot of fun without local packages and reproducibility I assume.

Last time I tried pipenv (a month ago?) there was a breaking unresolved bug on Ubuntu 16.04.

I'm not easy to hold grudges, but such a critical low-level tool manages to break for what I see as one of the most likely server environments to run on... I hold off on converting the (annoying, but working) virtualenv(wrapper) stuff. Just not worth it, now that I spent weeks of my life handling the annoyance that is python packaging and deployment.

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