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by rspeer 3605 days ago
Unless you're on Ubuntu, where they ship a non-functional version of venv and require you to "sudo apt install" python-venv to get the working version, defeating the entire point of a simple module in the stdlib that lets you manage your Python environment as a user.

The big improvement on 16.04 is at least the error message explains what's going on.