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How to install .py apps?
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Ok, so am I understanding correctly that for example the .py can be anywhere, as long as it is run from a suitable venv folder and the path to it is defined in the command?
Yeah, a python venv has two parts, one part is just a bunch of copies of some basic python shit that you know you’re gonna need, that’s honestly 99% of what you want when you do a venv and need to install a million stupid piles of crap by copy pasting a pip one liner into your shell.
You use this part by just invoking your python3 or pip command inside the venv folder. So ~./<venv_location>/pip install <joes_dumb_crap> or something.
The other one percent is actually invoking the venv which is a really important one percent in terms of not being a guy who plays fast and loose with his systems security and privacy when messing around with totally trustworthy python stuff. It’s only one percent because tbh no one is that guy they’re all the “do whatever just make it run” guy.
So you could have a script file called rectarg in your local path folder that invokes rectarg.py using the python3 executable inside your venv folder and passes whatever you type after “rectarg” straight to rectarg.py.