Using Nix to manage my Python Interpreter
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I recently started playing with nix.

Date: November 14, 2021

I recently started playing with nix.

## goals

* automatically select correct python version per project
* activating one doesn't bleed into the other

## Installing nix

``` bash
curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
```

## controlling nix-env

``` bash
nix-env -iA nixpkgs.python310
nix-env -iA nixpkgs.python39
nix-env -iA nixpkgs.python38
nix-env -iA nixpkgs.python37
```

## searching for packages

https://search.nixos.org/

```
nix-env -qaP .\*python.\*
```

``` bash
nix search nixpkgs python
```

## shell

```
nix-shell -p python39
```