Learning OpenCV 4 Computer Vision with Python 3 - Third Edition

Choosing and using the right setup tools

We are free to choose various setup tools, depending on our operating system and how much configuration we want to do.

Regardless of the choice of operating system, Python offers some built-in tools that are useful for setting up a development environment. These tools include a package manager called pip and a virtual environment manager called venv. Some of this chapter's instructions will cover pip specifically, but if you would like to learn about venv, please refer to the official Python documentation at https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html.

You should consider using venv if you plan to maintain a variety of Python projects that might have conflicting dependencies – for example, projects ...