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Python Programming Blueprints
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Python Programming Blueprints

by Daniel Furtado, Marcus Pennington
February 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
456 pages
9h 56m
English
Packt Publishing
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Setting up the environment

As usual, we will start by setting up our environment; the first thing we need to do is set up a virtual environment that will allow us to easily install our project dependencies without interfering with Python's global installation.

In the previous chapters, we used virtualenv to create our virtual environment; however, Kenneth Reitz (the creator of the popular package requests) created pipenv. pipenv is for Python what NPM is for Node.js. However, pipenv is used for much more than package management, and it also creates and manages a virtual environment for you. In my opinion, there are a lot of advantages of the old development workflows, but for me, there are two things that stand out: the first is that you ...

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