Tag: `!venv` explaining virtual environments

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Tag: `!venv` explaining virtual environments #126

Closed Zedeldi closed 2 years ago

Zedeldi commented 3 years ago

Description

Add a !venv tag to explain the purpose, creation and activation of virtual environments.

It should outline the following:

Purpose: keeps system clean, dependency management, etc.
Creation: python -m venv .venv
Activation for both PowerShell and Bash

Notes

On Windows systems, the execution policy needs to be set before activating from PowerShell:

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser

Resources

Python docs

NIRDERIi commented 3 years ago

I have to say, I have no idea what is venv or what it's used for. I think you should write some explanation that you think is good to be a tag about it, and let users review and suggest more things. Waiting to see the tag soon!

HassanAbouelela commented 3 years ago

You can submit a draft if you’d like, but I’m not sure a tag is the right medium for this. With the execution policy extension, the content would probably be longer than what’s ideal for a tag, and may be better suited to site content.