Building RESTful Python Web Services

Setting up a virtual environment with Flask and Flask-RESTful

In Chapter 1 , Developing RESTful APIs with Django, we learned that, throughout this book, we were going to work with the lightweight virtual environments introduced in Python 3.4 and improved in Python 3.4. Now, we will follow the steps to create a new lightweight virtual environment to work with Flask and Flask-RESTful. It is highly recommended to read Chapter 1, Developing RESTful APIs with Django, in case you don't have experience with lightweight virtual environments in Python. The chapter includes all the detailed explanations of the effects of the steps we are going to follow.

First, we have to select the target folder or directory for our virtual environment. We will use the ...