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Pythonic Isolation: Virtual Environments

Debajyati Dey on March 17, 2024

What are virtual environments? Virtual environments in Python are isolated, self-contained spaces that allow you to separate dependencie...
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Jakub Spórna

Proposition to use .env name for virtualenv folder is IMHO catastrophe. That name is "reserved" for config file where are kept environment variables with values for local environment. I bet it was the root cause of "causing some unexpected errors".

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Debajyati Dey

Oh! didn't know about that! Thanks for the insight!

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Swapnoneel Saha

Crisp and informative!! Nice work Debajyati!!

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Debajyati Dey

Thanks Swapnoneel for your kind words.
Glad you found it useful.

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Samyabrata Maji

Great article!!

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Debajyati Dey

Thanks samya!

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Subhradip Sinha

Awesomely done ✅ really appreciate your effort 👍

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Debajyati Dey

Thank you Subhra! 🙌😄