Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas

venv

Python 3 comes with the venv module, which will create a virtual environment in the location of our choice. The process of setting up and using a development environment is as follows (after Python is installed):

1. Create a folder for the project
2. Use venv to create an environment in this folder
3. Activate the environment
4. Install Python packages in the environment with pip
5. Deactivate the environment when finished

In practice, we will create environments for each project we work on, so our first step will be to create a directory for all of our project files. For this, we can use the mkdir command. Once this has been created, we will change our current directory to be that one using the cd command. Since we already obtained the project files ...