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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter
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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter

by Alan D. Moore
May 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
452 pages
11h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Testing our source distribution

If you don't have a second computer handy to test your source installer on, you can use a Python virtual environment instead. A virtual environment is an isolated Python installation that can be activated on-demand to keep packages from polluting our system's Python environment.

First, make sure you have virtualenv installed using pip:

pip install --user virtualenv

Next, create a directory anywhere on your system and create a Python 3 environment in it as follows:

mkdir testenv
python3 -m virtualenv -p python3 testenv

This will create a copy of the Python interpreter and standard library in the testenv directory. This environment can be modified in any way you wish without affecting your system's Python.

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