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Venv

  • Venv is a virtual environment manager for Python.
  • It's been shipping with python since 3.5
  • The workflow for all virtualenvs is:
    • Create it
    • Activate it
    • Install packages and do your developement things.
    • Deactivate it
    • Delete it (if you want)

Cheatsheet​

  • To Create a Virtual Environment:

    python -m venv <virtual env name>

  • Activate Your Virtual Environment

    <virtual env>/bin/activate

    OR activate.bat for windows

  • Use any Package manager to install packages.

  • Make sure you run you python files and notebook based off of the virtual environment you created.

  • To Deactivate Your Virtual Environment

    deactivate

    OR deactivate.bat for windows