Yeah, you read that right. I actually think that pipenv is better than venv for there are multiple reasons and a whole lot of thought behind it. Tl;Dr: Use pipenv for better compatibility. What do I mean? The other day I was setting up my project on my new machine so I did the usual : Opened my Terminal Created an Env directory in the root made a venv in it for particular use cases, like a django venv for the new django projects where I don't need to worry about using django2.x and an ML venv where I installed the latest frameworks used for ML including Tf2.x went to my root directory, created the projects directory, cloned my web development project, opened it in my vscode and selected my interpreter. These steps seem usual but what followed was grim, the ghastly error named and no suggestions when I type :). It's something no one likes to look at. I looked up on StackOverflow and other places on how to fix it after I wasn't able to fix it on my own even after selecting the interpreter multiple times. After putting more thought to it, I realized that the Mac comes with 3.7.4 Python by default and I had just updated it to 3.8.3 but well you might think what's the big deal about it, right? unresolved-import Nothing. But as for , it's quite a big deal. When I initially created my using the command , the system default was Python 3.7.4 but later, it updated to Python 3.8.3. However, doesn't know that yet. I had to update it using but my installed third party packages were gone (they were in , but Python 3.8 was looking in ), so I had to reinstall them. venv venv python3 -m venv django venv python3 -mvenv --upgrade path/to/venv path/to/venv/lib/python3.7 path/to/venv/lib/python3.8 It doesn't end here though, IF I had gone out of my way and made the using instead of , I'd have no choice ( or a way more complicated one than it would've been worth it cause this is just sheer unproductivity ) to even upgrade my so that sucks, quite a lot actually. venv python3.7.4 ... python3 ... venv Well, after finally coming to the realization that I had to move on from that ,by the way, has * * to something that offers more and consumes less time involving me in fixing it routinely. That something turned out to be 'pipenv' which is, in my opinion, one of the best dependency management systems that also dismisses the need for a file ( which I still prefer to have though ). venv no backward compatibility requirements.txt Pipenv offers you the best of pip ( or pip3 ) and virtualenv at once. In essence, it is a tool for creating a virtual environment, a utility for installing packages, managing virtual environments (like virtualenvwrapper or pyenv), and has all the commands associated with the libraries used. And, it has backward compatibility so it works even with Python2.x projects. Using it Now you might wonder how do you use it with your projects, it's actually fairly simple. Make sure pipenv is installed else, install it with `pip3(or pip) install pipenv`. Create a project. cd into the directory. run pipenv shell. It will create a virtual environment for your project and a pipfile for dependency management. Now how do you install packages with pipenv? Just run pipenv install package_name How do you see what packages are installed? Go to your Pipfile or run . pipenv graph In conclusion, use pipenv, be smart! xD For more of this content, look at my profile I guess. Previously published at https://dev.to/arthtyagi/why-i-think-pipenv-is-better-than-venv-and-how-to-get-started-with-it-2hcd

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