Creating Virtual Environment in Python

Virtual Environment: is a resource that helps keep the dependencies provided by various projects apart by developing independent python virtual environments.

• Generally speaking, it’s good practice to have a new virtual environment for any Python software project as each project’s dependencies are separated from the program and one another.

Requirements

• python
• pip3

Steps to set up python virtual Environment

• Open a terminal
• Enter the following commands in the terminal:
  • $ pip3 install virtualenv
  • $ virtualenv project –python=python3.7 #project is the name of the virtual environment and python3.7 is the python version for the -environment
  • $ cd project
  • $ source bin/activate # activate the environment
  • $ deactivate # deactivate the environment