For example, you could adapt it to use pypy at build time.... to be continued
The buildpack will detect your app as Python if it has the file `requirements.txt` in the root. It will detect your app as Python/Django if there is an additional `settings.py` in a project subdirectory.
It will use virtualenv and pip to install your dependencies, vendoring a copy of the Python runtime into your slug. The `bin/`, `include/` and `lib/` directories will be cached between builds to allow for faster pip install time.
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To use this buildpack, fork it on Github. Push up changes to your fork, then create a test app with `--buildpack <your-github-url>` and push to it.
To change the vendored virtualenv, unpack the desired version to the `src/` folder, and update the virtualenv() function in `bin/compile` to prepend the virtualenv module directory to the path. The virtualenv release vendors its own versions of pip and setuptools.