But it really shouldn't. Unfortunately this was fixed only in Django >= 3. In the future, `translate.py` should be edited to use `ignore_patterns`: ```python for l in locales: print("Building %s .po files into .mo" % l) call_command('compilemessages', '--locale=%s' % l, ignore_patterns=["venv/*"]) # <-- here ``` Currently it just takes a bit longer to start dev mode.