[jrochkind1]

Interesting, I haven't worked in python, but I was always jealous of python having a single 'official' solution in virtualenv, instead of ruby, where it's confusing for newcomers to figure out which one they should be using (rvm? rbenv? chruby?), and each solution has it's annoyances and problems. I always thought it would be better if the community unified it's efforts behind one solution and made sure it was bug-free, and where the language's binaries or behaviors might actually be changed when needed to support that solution.

Maybe it's just the grass is always greener.

[weaksauce]

Since you haven't used it you don't know how awkward it is compared to the Ruby iterations. Let's just say virtualenv and the packaging ecosystem is what drew me away from Python.

[nileshtrivedi]

Ideally, the operating system's package manager is supposed to solve this. User-installable alternative versions shouldn't be that hard.