Comment by abrichr

Agreed, never had a problem with this approach.

The only limitation I've encountered is when moving the environment or renaming one of the parent directories. In which case it's easy to create a new one:

    # optional: freeze the environment if you don't already have a requirements.txt
    source .venv/bin/activate
    pip freeze > requirements.txt
    deactivate

    # remove the old environment
    rm -rf .venv

    # create a new one
    python3.10 -m venv .venv

    # activate it
    source .venv/bin/activate

    # install the requirements
    pip install -r requirements.txt