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Their wordsYou can also disregard claims that virtual environments measurably affect your application's runtime performance.
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Using virtual environments makes Python's import behavior more predictable and debugging easier.
Their wordsThat makes Python's import behavior much more predictable and debugging import issues less of a murder mystery.
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The npm ecosystem's project-directory-local-first packaging was ahead of the Python ecosystem.
Their wordsIn that sense, the npm ecosystem with its project-directory-local-first packaging was far ahead of us, stuck in our old, lazy ways.
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