When setting up any project of any technology setting up virtual environment is not necessary.
But for working with python projects I got to know that Setting Up a Virtual Environment is must and necessary step.
Why a Virtual Environment?
It is a containarized isolated enviroment which helps to maintain all the files related to this project like python files, packages, dependencies, installations, configurations etc. and provides a better organization so that, it doesn't interfear in other system settings and other projects.
1.Dependency Management – Each project can have its own isolated dependencies, preventing conflicts between different versions of packages.
2.Avoid System-Level Changes – Installing packages globally can mess up system dependencies or cause issues with other projects.
3.Reproducibility – You can share requirements.txt or pyproject.toml to recreate the exact environment on another machine.
4.Better Organization – Keeps project-specific packages separate, reducing clutter in the global Python environment.
When You might not need one?
- When you are working on smaller scripts or a one time task then u might not need it.
How to set up Virtual Environment for Python Projects?
- I'm working on a flask project,so to setup the virtual env
1.Go to that folder open with VSCode (IDE of your choice).
2.press ctrl+` to open the terminal.
- Now run the command
pip install virtualenv
To create a virtual environment run
virtualenv envthen activate it run
env\scripts\ativate.bat
You can see(venv) is set before the path,which specifies virtual environment is set to your directory.
Then install your required dependencies which you want to work with.
pip install -r requirements.txt
It is simple but effectively important.Do,not miss this step if did then face the complications.
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