Python environment provisioner on a Ubuntu machine. I recommend combining it with Vagrant

python_provisioner.sh

#!/bin/sh

# This script can be run by:
#      curl <raw text URL> | sh

# Installing basic packages
sudo apt-get install -y python-pip python-dev build-essential ipython-notebook
sudo pip install --upgrade pip 
sudo pip install --upgrade virtualenv 

# Setup virtualenvs
mkdir ~/.python_envs
cd ~/.python_envs
virtualenv --distribute dev

# on the python source dir run
# source ~/.python_envs/dev/bin/activate