setup-python-venv.md

Create a Virtual Environment in Python (venv)

To go even deeper with the development of the framework, it is interesting to work with a virtual environment in Python. To achieve that, Python has the right tool: venv. venv is a virtual environment created to store specific packages for your project.

1. Create a new virtual environment venv

   Create a directory whereas the virtual environment will be located by creating Python venv command.

   python3 -m venv /path/to/environment/venvCBDGEN

   In case you don't have Python virtual environment, you'll be prompted with a error message to install virtualenv. Install it by using pip install virtualenv and try again.

2. Access the virtual environment

   Verify if you can access your environment by using:

   source /path/to/environment/venvCBDGEN/bin/activate

   If so, you must see that your console might be showing the name of the environment, as the example below:

   (venvCBDGEN) steffanop@asus-b85:~/GitHub/cbdgen-framework$

In case this tutorial didn't work for you, try taking a look at the official documentation https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html.