What is virtualenv?

VirtualEnv creates an isolated python environments. We python developers you will be dealing with several python projects that might use different python version or different version of libaries. VirtualEnv creates the isolation so that we don’t run into environment configs

$ pip install --user virtualenv

Activate the Virtual Environment

If you are running python3

$ python3 -m venv env

$ virtualenv env

where env is the folder (or directory) to place the virtual environment

$ source ./env/bin/activate

This command will activate the environment

Deactivate the Virtual Envrionment

$ deactivate

Removing the envrionment

rm -rf ./env