Re: Defeat Python "Virtual Environment" in Fedora ?

Richard Kettlewell <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:40:36 +0000
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc,comp.lang.python
Organization terraraq NNTP server
Message-ID <[email protected]>
c186282 <[email protected]> writes:
> On 3/10/26 13:09, Jon Ribbens wrote:
>> On 2026-03-10, c186282 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>     Can't figure out how to zap the VENV in order
>>>     to provide the examples you'd like  :-)
>>>
>>>     Seems like, of late, it's entirely baked-in -
>>>     Python is the VENV and the VENV is Python.
>> This not only isn't true, it cannot be true, because *by definition*
>> if the environment you're seeing is the same one Python always sees
>> then it isn't a "virtual" environment, it's the system environment.
>
>   OK, tomorrow, HOW do I start a Py3 that's NOT in
>   the VENV ???

You’ve been told how to exit venvs more than once. If you can’t follow
simple instructions, that’s a problem with you, not Python.

>   Go ahead, search - I have. All the 'fixes' don't
>   work anymore.
>
>   Many say "no problem" - yet NO current workarounds.

Multiple people are trying to help you, for increasingly opaque
reasons. You’ll get nowhere until you actually start following their
advice.

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