Make Python Virtual Environments

To create a new python environment, type:

python3 -m venv --prompt . .venv --clear --upgrade-deps

To activate the environment, type:

source .venv/bin/activate

The python version used in the code to create a virtualenvironment will be the python version used in the python venv so if you have python3.8 instaled then you can run

python3.8 -m venv --prompt . .venv --clear --upgrade-deps

to use python 3.8.

this process is part of a day to day workflow so it’s useful to set up some aliases:

  alias workon='source .venv/bin/activate'
  alias mkvirtualenv='python3 -m venv --prompt . .venv --clear --upgrade-deps && workon'

Add these to your bash_profile/zshrc/bashrc to make it easy to recreate venvs at any time