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diff --git a/docs/user_guide.rst b/docs/user_guide.rst index 8fdb05b..ae72b36 100644 --- a/docs/user_guide.rst +++ b/docs/user_guide.rst @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Virtualenv has one basic command: virtualenv -this will create a python virtual environment of the same version as virtualenv is installed into under path +This will create a python virtual environment of the same version as virtualenv is installed into under path ``venv``. The path where to generate the virtual environment can be changed via a positional argument being passed in, see the :option:`dest` flag. The command line tool has quite a few of flags that modify the components behaviour, for a full list make sure to check out :ref:`cli_flags`. @@ -42,10 +42,10 @@ python ``3.8``, virtualenv will by default create virtual environments that are Created python virtual environments are usually not self-contained. A complete python packaging is usually made up of thousand of files, so it's not efficient to install the entire python again into a new folder. Instead virtual -environments are mere shells, that contain very little within itself, and borrow most from the system python (this is -what you installed, when you installed python itself). This does mean that if you upgrade your system python your -virtual environments *might* break, so watch out. The upside of this referring to the system python is that creating -virtual environments can be very fast. +environments are mere shells, that contain little within itself, and borrow most from the system python (this is what +you installed, when you installed python itself). This does mean that if you upgrade your system python your virtual +environments *might* break, so watch out. The upside of this referring to the system python is that creating virtual +environments can be fast. Here we'll describe the builtin mechanism (note this can be extended though by plugins). The CLI flag :option:`p` or :option:`python` allows you to specify a python specifier for what type of virtual environment you would like, the |