Hello, I’m having some trouble in providing a dev shell (via flake) which I need to provide python3 and awscli2 packages, awscli2 is python app that depends on botocore library, my team need python3 for an older project (developed in old fashioned way, venv+pip) that depends also on an older version of botocore library, is there a way to “isolate” the python3 interpreter provided by the nix shell in order to not include the dependencies of awscli2 and avoid conflicts?
I am not sure I understand correctly what you mean by isolate. Do you need 2 different versions of botocore in the same mkShell ? Do you need both to be available in sitePackages ? What do you need to happen when you type python -c "import botocore" ?
I premise that I’m inexperienced in the python world.
I was expecting that the python installed in the nix shell wasn’t aware of the dependencies needed by awscli2 (also installed through the same shell), but the subsequent venv created (manually) inherits all the site-pacakges installed “globally” (exposed by nix), which is why I had version conflicts of botocore.
The solution I found is to unset the PYTHONPATH env var before activating the venv to obtain an hermetic environment
maybe there is a better method, but for the moment it’s ok this way
Thank you