A Virtual Environment is a python environment, that is an isolated working copy of Python which allows you to work on a specific project without affecting other projects
So basically it is a tool that enables multiple side-by-side installations of Python, one for each project.
Creating virtual environment in Linux
If pip is not in your system
$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
Then install virtualenv
$ pip install virtualenv
Now check your installation
$ virtualenv --version
Create a virtual environment now,
$ virtualenv virtualenv_name
After this command, a folder named virtualenv_name will be created. You can name anything to it. If you want to create a virtualenv for specific python version, type
$ virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 virtualenv_name
or
$ virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python2.7 virtualenv_name
Now at last we just need to activate it, using command
$ source virtualenv_name/bin/activate
Now you are in a Python virtual environment
You can deactivate using
$ deactivate
Creating Python virtualenv in Windows
If python is installed in your system, then pip comes in handy.
So simple steps are:
1) Install virtualenv using
> pip install virtualenv
2)Now in which ever directory you are, this line below will create a virtualenv there
> virtualenv myenv
And here also you can name it anything.
3) Now if you are same directory then type,
> myenv\Scripts\activate
You can explicitly specify your path too.
Similarly like Linux you can deactivate it like
$ deactivate
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