Creating a virtual environment in Python

Quick version

This tutorial focuses on creating a virtual environment or venv for use with Python. I only intend to provide a brief introduction to venv, mostly providing the code necessary.

To install the venv software enter the following:

pip install virtualenv

Now you can create a venv on your system. To initiate venv within any directory type the following:

python<version> -m venv <virtual-environment-name>

Like so:

python3 -m venv myVenv

To activate the venv enter the following command:

source myVenv/bin/activate …

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