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On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:

Well, I have to be honest, I've \*always\* thought "nest" would be a good choice
for a feature like this, but years ago (IIRC) PJE wanted to reserve that term
for something else, which I'm not sure ever happened.

Actually, it was pretty much for this exact purpose -- i.e. it was the idea of a virtual environment. �Ian just implemented it first, with some different ideas about configuration and activation. �Since this is basically the replacement for that, I don't have any objection to using the term here. �(In my vision, "nest" was also the name of a package management tool for creating such nests and manipulating their contents, though.)

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