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Audit python virtual environments
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Venvs can go stale. Find venvs with old python versions. Using the pyenv.cfg file works across venv, poetry, etc.

$ find ~ -name pyvenv.cfg |xargs grep -h executable |sort | uniq -c
     11 base-executable = /usr/bin/python3.10
     56 base-executable = /usr/bin/python3.11
     26 base-executable = /usr/bin/python3.12
      6 base-executable = /usr/bin/python3.13
      5 base-executable = /usr/bin/python3.9
      1 base-executable = /usr/lib/python-exec/python3.11/python3
      5 base-executable = /usr/lib/python-exec/python3.6/python
      4 executable = /usr/bin/python3.12
     13 executable = /usr/bin/python3.13
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