---
title: "Using Nix to manage my Python Interpreter"
description: "I recently started playing with nix."
date: 2021-11-14
published: false
tags:
  - python
template: blog-post
---


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
```