Comment by Spiritus

> [...] from time to time I need to write a script or use a popular python library like pygments and I used to hate having to do anything with python because of how difficult it seemed to install anything

Not sure I understand why you're having so much trouble. It's literally two commands:

    $ python3 -m venv venv  # Create virtualenv
    $ ./venv/bin/pip install pygments

However! One unfortunate thing with this is that `python3 -m venv` doesn't include the 'wheel' package in the virtualenv out-of-the-box. So it's often a good idea to install/upgrade pip, setuptools and wheel after creating the virtualenv:

    $ ./venv/bin/pip install -U pip setuptools wheel