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Python Virtual Environment

This document provides steps to create a virtual environment in Visual Studio Code for Python development on macOS. It explains how to create a virtual environment called 'web_scrape_env', a project folder called 'web_scrape', and a test file called 'app.py'. It also describes installing packages like Beautiful Soup and Requests in the virtual environment.

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Python Virtual Environment

This document provides steps to create a virtual environment in Visual Studio Code for Python development on macOS. It explains how to create a virtual environment called 'web_scrape_env', a project folder called 'web_scrape', and a test file called 'app.py'. It also describes installing packages like Beautiful Soup and Requests in the virtual environment.

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Creating virtual environment in Visual Studio Code

for Python on macOS

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Will assume you have the following knowledge and your machine the following
softwares:

• Visual Studio Code (VSCode) with <python> and <doraemon-runner> extensions

• Python3

• Confident to use VS Code regarding folder (create/open), terminal (open/close),


files (create/open/edit), install dependencies (when required), configuration
(command palette)

• Know how to create folders and navigate them via terminal

• Know how to run a Python application <python3 “file_name.py>

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Create a virtual environment to develop a Python application using VSCode

• Environment name: ‘web_scrape_env’


• Project folder: ‘web_scrape’

• Project file for test the environment: ‘app.py’


• Packages to install: ‘BeautifulSoup4’ and ‘Requests’

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▶︎ in VSCode terminal ( ⌃` ) create the virtual environment <python3 -m venv web_scrape_env>

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▶︎ create the folder ‘web_scrape <mkdir web_scrape>

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▶︎ both folders have been created (1)’web_scrape’ and (2)’web_scrape_env’

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▶︎ open ( ⌘O ) the folder project ‘web_scrape’

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▶︎ create ( ⌘N ) a new file ‘app.py’

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▶︎ open ‘Workspace Settings (JSON)’ on Command Palette ( ⇧⌘P )

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▶︎ type between curly brackets “python-pythonPath”: “python”

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▶︎ open the terminal ( ⌃` ), change to the environment folder then copy its path

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▶︎ replace ‘python’ to the path of the virtual environment ‘web_scrape_env’

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▶︎ if you get a message to install ‘Linter’ just confirm. Linter is a tool to analyse the source code

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▶︎ now your project is pointing to the virtual environment ‘web_scrape_env’

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What is that mean ‘point to the Virtual Environment web_scrape_env’?

• The project will have access to the packages inside the environment

• There is no need to install packages globally for all your projects

• Imagine if you have an application that uses a package version 1.0.1 with a
specific function/method, but the other version let is say 2.3.5 works
completely different. You have two options: change all your code or avoid any
upgrade to the new version. But if you have a version 1.0.1 in your
environment v1.0.1 you do not need to worry, unless you install the new
version 2.3.5.

• DO NOT forget to change your virtual environment when create a new


application.
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▶︎ enter in the terminal the command ‘pip list’. That lists the packages installed in the virtual environment

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▶︎ location of all the packages available on your environment ‘web_scrap_env’

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▶︎ on your project (1) activate virtual environment and (2) install the packages ‘beautiful soup (bs4)’ and ‘requests’

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▶︎ now both packages are available to be used on your project

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▶︎ type the code (1) above inside the ‘app.py’ then (2) run ‘python app.py’

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▶︎ if all goes well you should see the following return on your prompt

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▶︎ if you need to uninstall the packages run the command ‘pip uninstall bs4 requests’

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Thanks very much

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