Lesson 07 · 11 min
venv and pip
Dependencies live in a virtual environment, not in the system Python "for the whole computer".
python -m venv .venv creates a folder with its own interpreter. Activate it and pip install requests installs the package there. requirements.txt is a list so a colleague can repeat it. Install everything into the system Python and other people's projects break later.
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