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venv is a bundled virtualenv subset. It came after it. Now you don't need to install virtualenv since venv comes bundled with python. Don't concern yourself.

pyenv, poetry are wrappers and do different things.

You would use pyenv to create a virtual environment. Or venv directly. Or the older virtualenv tool. Stick to pyenv as it is easiest.

You can setup your shell to activate/deactivate automagically for you when you cd into your project directory using something like: https://github.com/direnv/direnv

I would avoid poetry.

Edit: bah, somebody answered already

tl;dr - Setup direnv and pyenv once and foggetaboutit.

This comment made me wonder if there's a tool out there akin to ~~autoenv~~ direnv [1], but that automatically activates a virtual environment when you cd into a directory with e.g., a poetry.lock.

Surprisingly, it seems like the answer today is no. But there's a little bash snippet that wraps cd to give us a start [2]. But just dropping `poetry shell` in an `.envrc` for direnv is better than nothing too.

[1]: https://github.com/direnv/direnv

[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/50830617/149428