Creating Virtual environment using python 3.8 when python 2.7 is present

Question

I am trying to create a virtual environment using mkvirtualenv with python 3 in Windows but the environment is created with python 2.7.My pip version is also from python 2.7 which i have avoided using

py -m pip install virtualenvwrapper-win

When i do

mkvirtualenv test

environment is created with python 2.7 Please help me with a solution Thanks in advance:)

Solution 1

If you would like to create a virtualenv with python 3.X having the version 2.X

You just have to pass a parameter argument for your virtual env.

$ virtualenv venv -p $(which python3)

This command will point to your current python3 install folder, and create a virtualenv copied from your current python3 binaries.

If you would like to see what this command does, just fire the command:

$ which python3
#should print your current python3 binary folder.

Solution 2

you need install python3.8 to your enviroment, if you are in ubuntu(18.04):

sudo apt install python3.8

and:

mkvirtualenv name_of_the_project -p python3.8

Comments

[Harsha N Hegde]

This solution also works for Ubuntu20.04 with python3.8

[JayB]

This solution also worked on Ubuntu18.04.