No matter whether you have chosen to install a standalone Python or instead used a scientific distribution, you may have noticed that you are actually bound on your system to the Python version you have installed. The only exception, for Windows users, is to use a WinPython distribution, since it is a portable installation and you can have as many different installations as you need.
A simple solution to breaking free of such a limitation is to use virtualenv, which is a tool for creating isolated Python environments. That means, by using different Python environments, you can easily achieve the following things:
- Testing any new package installation or doing experimentation on your Python environment without ...
