Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja

Getting ready

The old way to manage virtual environments was with the venv tool. To install it, use the command sudo apt install python3-venv.

To manage virtual environments in a modern way, the pipenv module (https://docs.pipenv.org/) was developed; it automatically creates and manages virtual environments for projects, as well as adding and removing packages from Pipfile when you install/uninstall packages. It can be installed using pip install pipenv.

Pipfile is an alternative to requirements.txt, which is used to specify exact versions of modules to include in a program. Pipfile actually comprises two separate files: Pipfile and (optionally) Pipfile.lock. Pipfile is simply a listing of the source location of imported modules, the module ...