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My recent workflow is to use a great program called mise. You have a config file in your directory and hey presto, python venvs work, they install themselves if they don't already exist, and it will install the exact version of python you specify in your config. On top of that is will set environment variables for you and unload them when you change directory. If you combine this with uv (just tell mise you want uv installed in the config) you can run uv pip sync and instantly reflect any changes in your requirements file directly into your venv very quickly.