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or `the leading tool <http://www.virtualenv.org>`_ that allows one to
create such environments.
+ Note: whenever you encounter commands prefixed with ``$VENV`` (Unix)
+ or ``%VENV`` (Windows), know that that is the environment variable whose
+ value is the root of the virtual environment in question.
+
resource
An object representing a node in the :term:`resource tree` of an
application. If :mod:`traversal` is used, a resource is an element in