Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas

Windows

To create our environment for this book, we will use the venv module from the standard library. Note that we must provide a name for our environment:

C:\...> python -m venv book_env

Now, we have a folder for our virtual environment named book_env inside the repository folder that we cloned/downloaded earlier. In order to use the environment, we need to activate it:

C:\...> %cd%\book_env\Scripts\activate.bat

Windows replaces %cd% with the path to the current directory. This saves us from having to type the full path up to the book_env part.

Note that, after we activate the virtual environment, we can see (book_env) in front of our prompt on the command line; this lets us know we are in the environment:

(book_env) C:\...> 

When we ...