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6 Installing collected packages: requests
7 Successfully installed requests-2.11.1
8 9+Optionally, you can specify the python binary to use for this virtual environment
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11+::
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13+ $ mkvenv --python=/usr/bin/python3
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15+In fact, mkvenv supports any parameters that can be passed to ``mkvirtualenv``
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17 ``mkvenv`` will create a virtual environment with the same name as the
18 current directory, suggest installing ``requirements.txt`` if available
19 and create the relevant ``.venv`` file for you.