Python Introduction

Working with virtual environment

When working on a python project its always advisable to create for it a virtual environment.

Steps for doing that include :

1. Navigate to the project's directory then

2. Run python -venv dev
   -note dev is just the name of the virtual environment ,your free to name it however you prefer.

3.Activate the virtual environment using this command :
source dev/bin/activate

-Note if you are using windows run dev\Scripts\activate
instead.

1. create a requirements.txt file using the command : ** pip freeze > requirements.txt**

2. this file will contain all packages installed for thespecified project.

3. Install any packages required using pip install

4. Repeat command in step 4, to update the requirements.txt.