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Flask Framework Cookbook
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Flask Framework Cookbook

by Shalabh Aggarwal
November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
258 pages
5h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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Environment setup with virtualenv

Flask can be installed using pip or easy_install globally, but we should always prefer to set up our application environment using virtualenv. This prevents the global Python installation from getting affected by our custom installation by creating a separate environment for our application. This separate environment is helpful because you can have multiple versions of the same library being used for multiple applications, or some packages might have different versions of the same libraries as dependencies. virtualenv manages this in separate environments and does not let a wrong version of any library affect any application.

How to do it…

We will first install virtualenv using pip and then create a new environment ...

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ISBN: 9781783983407