No symlink in zsh with venv

The problem:

Unable to symlink '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/bin/python3' to '/Users/mcadams/Documents/ ... /env/bin/python3'

This is, I think, an issue with the new Z shell (zsh) in MacOS Catalina. What I had attempted was my usual virtualenv command, at the bash prompt:

python3 -m venv env

That gave me the “Unable to symlink” pain. So I opened my .zshrc file with nano and added this line:

export PATH="/usr/local/opt/python/libexec/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

THIS FIXED NOTHING.

So then I changed the command to:

python3.8 -m venv env

And it worked. source env/bin/activate and I was in my new env, just like normal.

If you aren’t sure which Python 3 version you’ve got, type: python3 --version and you’ll find out. Note again, this is MacOS, not Windows.

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