My python script is not inside the venv.  If I move it there and change the path in the zsh script, I can get rid of all the other stuff?

The reason the create is there is because Python refused to work without a venv, and once I finally got it working, I didn't bother to remove that line.  I don't mind the messages when the output is correct.

But would did that diagnostic message begin appearing and the other stop when neither script had been changed?