Python Penetration Testing Cookbook

Setting up a virtual environment

Now you can learn to set up a virtual environment that will help to set up an isolated scripting environment. This will help us to keep the dependencies required by different projects in different locations. Also, it helps to keep the global site-packages clean and separate from project dependencies:

1. You can use pip to install the virtual environment module in the system:

$ pip install virtualenv 

2. Then test the installation by using the following:

$ virtualenv --version 

3. Try creating a new virtual environment inside your project folder:

$ mkdir new-project-folder
$ cd new-project-folder
$ virtualenv new-project

This will create a folder in the current directory with a name new-project.

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