New python project

python

On starting §

First, we create and activate the virtual environment before installing the required packages.

 
python3 -m venv myvenv # Create
source venv/bin/activate # Activate

Once we have installed the required packages in the virtual environment for this project, we can generate the requirements.txt.

 
pip freeze > requirements.txt

When we are done working in the virtual environment, we can deactivate it.

deactivate

On using §

To install the required packages listed in requirements.txt into virtual environment, we need to create and activate a virtual environment first and then install the packages.

python3 -m venv venv # Create
source venv/bin/activate # Activate
pip install -r requirements.txt # Install

On committing §

Warning:

Normally, we would not commit the virtual environment to the repository. We would add it to .gitignore instead.