Issue pointing Pycall to Virtualenv

I have a python 3.8 environment named *myenv* created using virtualenv that I am attempting to use with PyCall.
The instructions in the readme to interface PyCall with virtual environments is yielding unexpected behaviour.
- https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyCall.jl#python-virtual-environments

The issue is as follows -

Suppose *myenv* is installed at `/home/myenv`. All the python executables in `/home/myenv/bin` are symbolically linked to `/usr/bin`.

Following instructions in the readme, I activated *myenv*, opened the julia repl, and attempted to point PyCall to *myenv* via `ENV["PYCALL_JL_RUNTIME_PYTHON"] = /home/myenv/bin/Python3.8`

Unfortunately after issuing `using PyCall`, issuing `pyimport("sys").executable` returns `/home/myenv/bin/Python3.8`. Thus PyCall fails when attempting to import packages installed only in *myenv*.

Anyone have any idea why PyCall is not pointed to *myenv* after following the readme instructions? If I were a betting man, I'd bet something with the symlink is causing issue.

I am using Python3.8, Julia 1.3.1 on linux.