Daniel Arbuckle's Mastering Python

Creating a virtual environment

Creating a virtual environment for a new project is easy; we just open the command line and go to the folder where we want the project folder to reside. Then, we use the version of Python that we want the virtual environment to use to run the venv tool:

When we call venv, we tell it the name we want to give to the project folder. The venv tool will create the project folder and populate it with the files needed to support the virtual environment:

Each time we actually want to work inside the virtual environment, ...