virtual_environments.md

Virtual Environments

Virtual environments allow the user to manage dependencies across multiple projects. Some projects might require different versions of different packages.

To create a virtual environment, we use a tool called venv.

First, create a new directory that will contain the virtual environment.

mkdir .venv

Proceed to create the virtual env using this command

python -m venv .venv

Finally, we need to activate the virtual environment using on Unix or Mac:

source .venv/bin/activate

and on Windows:

.\.venv\Scripts\activate

Now the dependencies can be safely installed

pip install -r requirements.txt

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