January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
326 pages
7h 38m
English
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Creating a virtual environment with Python 3.x and PEP 405
Throughout this book, we will be working with different packages and libraries to create RESTful Web Services, and therefore it is convenient to work with Python virtual environments. Python 3.3 introduced lightweight virtual environments and they were improved in Python 3.4. We will work with these virtual environments, and therefore you will need Python 3.4 or greater. You can read more information about PEP 405 Python Virtual Environment, that introduced the venv module, here: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0405. All the examples in this book were tested on Python 3.6.2 on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
In case you decide to use the popular virtualenv (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv ...