Shell slows and venv activation breaks after pyenv setup
Editing .bashrc or .profile to set up pyenv and venv slows every new shell and makes the venv prompt activate inconsistently.
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4 public reports · first reported 7 October 2026 · last reported 8 October 2026
What's going wrong
People who follow pyenv and virtualenv setup instructions add several lines to their shell startup files.
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