Daniel Arbuckle's Mastering Python

pip in virtual environments

Initially, the virtual environment contains only the Python standard library and a couple of utilities, including pip itself.

However, we can use pip to install the third-party packages that we're going to use on the project. When we looked at pip, you learned about its --user command-line option, which installs the package into a personal package library instead of the system library.

Installing the package into a personal package library, instead of the system library, is never necessary when installing into a virtual environment because the virtual environment has changed where the default installation location is.

Now that everything is set up, we can begin work. We shouldn't delete any of the files or folders ...