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I've been using this for a few weeks now, and it's really handy. But I did learn the hard way that it fails if you don't have internet connection, even if you already have the venv cached.


That's really unexpected! I'd default to the assumption that it would "just work" if all the dependencies are already met.


`--offline` :)


Except you can't put that in the shebang for the first run


True, for servers you can't warm up, shiv is your best bet: https://shiv.readthedocs.io/

Or points to your own private pypi instance with --index-url.




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