Virtual Environments

venv

There are a few ways to create venv virtual environments.

The easiest way is to use VSCode. In a Python file, click on the Python version in the bottom right. Then click on Select Interpreter then Create New Virtual Environment. This creates a new virtual environment in the .venv directory in the root of the project. Whenever you open a Python file in this project, VSCode will automatically activate the virtual environment. So the terminal will inherit it.

You can also create a virtual environment using the terminal. Navigate to the root of the project and run:

python -m venv .venv

This creates a new virtual environment in the .venv directory in the root of the project. To activate it, run:

# to activate the virtual environment
source .venv/bin/activate
 
# to deactivate the virtual environment
deactivate