Python – Creating a Virtual Environment for Python2 or Python3

1. Install virtualenv.

pip install virtualenv

2. cd into your project directory.

cd project/

3. Create virtual environment. This will create venv directory under your project.

virtualenv venv --python=python2.7

4. Activate virtualenv

source venv/bin/activate

Done. Install whatever package you need for your project using

pip install

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If you are creating a virtual environment for python3, and you have python3 at the system level, simply replace step 3 with

virtualenv venv

If you want to remove virtual environment, first deactivate it by running

deactivate

and remove the venv directory.

rm -rf venv

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