Setup Python Development Environment

In a development environment, make sure you have the following:

• python3
• pip3
• virtualenv

Steps:

1. To install virtualenv

pip3 install --user virtualenv

2. Set up virtualenv venv

python3 -m virtualenv venv

3. Go into the virtualenv (defaults to bash, use appropriate source file for other shells):

source venv/bin/activate

4. You can now program in python installing requirements specific to your program without affecting the entire system.

Install requirements.txt

If your software has a requirements.txt file, that contains all the dependencies to run your program.

1. Install requirements.txt

pip3 install -r requirements.txt