Python project notes

python-project-notes.md

Creating a Python project

This contains notes on creating Python projects

pip

pip comes with Python.

Useful commands:

• pip list: list all globally installed packages
• pip freeze: list locally installed packages. This can be used to compile a requirements.txt by doing pip freeze > requirements.txt.

virtualenv

Installation

pip install virtualenv

Usage

Create a new virtual environment called venv:

virtualenv venv

Activate the created virtual environment

Unix:

source venv/bin/activate

Windows:

venv\Scripts\activate