always wondered whats the difference and thank you so much for this video, very informative

Cheers Anthony for the clarification - virtualenv & venv.

Perfect explanation man. Thanks!

DUDE!! I WAS SOO CONFUSED BEFORE WATCHING THIS!! THANK YOU MY MAN!! YOU GOT A SUB!

Thanks for this, Anthony... another great video.

Cheers mate! This really helped a lot, didn't know about virtual environments before this week... My Python setups were pretty much configured in all the ways you should NOT set up Python and in hindsight they were really quite hideous hah. With this knowledge things are miles better now, I managed to use the knowledge gained in this video to overcome an issue that has been causing me so much grief for the last 3 days. Really appreciate the help.

Awesome video ....Thank you very much for posting

Great video, so helpful to just have all of this laid out in a straightforward manner. Also in general recently discovered your channel and twitch, can't tell you how useful it's been! Two questions I quickly had: 1. Do you have any practices around storing / keeping track of virtual environments? 2. For python versions, does is virtualenv natively ship with all python versions? Or do you need to download each python that you want to create virtual environments with?

Cool, for someone relatively new to Python's virtual env, this sort of helped. Good to know that the virtualenv, has some advantages over the newer venv. So, it appears that knowing/using both would be good and not just abandoned virtualenv altogether. I appreciate your taking the time to make these videos and I'm sure you want to do the best with them. So, don't take this the wrong way, but, it would be helpful if you could slow down or meter your speech more. I struggled understanding some of your descriptions. I found CC did too.

Great explanation!

You have a really nice persona, and thank you for your explanation. I shall look for other explanations from you :)

very helpful, thanks 👏👌

Thank you so much

Nice. Always wondered about this.

Really clean explanation! Thanks for making the video!

Nice video!

How did you set your directory and prompt in two different lines? It's really cool!!!

Can they work in background as a service or a normal application? And probably run using cronjob?

switching to virtualenv!

You can have several venv activated at the same time on different folders right ?

i`ve been seeing a lot of videos, could you recommend me what should i choose, a ide like jupyter, or a text editor like vscode? im starting to study seriously data science and this is an important step for me haha

😎 cool topic

By the way, you can also use Poetry to manage your environments. It works great and I think is has a relatively fast dependancy manager. And if you want you project to becoma a Pip package, Poetry makes that process extremely easy.

Does it make multiple copies of the packages in the directory? Is there a way to minimize that?

Excellent! I know it's years later, but this was a very good succinct explanation! I do have some additional questions. If I built a Django project using system python packages instead of in a virtual environment, how do I move my Django project into a virtual environment to isolate it? Is it as simple as copying or moving the Django project directory into the same directory that contains the virtual env folder?

@anthonywritescode 9:54 It's actually possible to create virtualenvs in other Python versions using Venv only: In windows you type in cmd: python -{version you want to create the virtualenv in} -m vevn {name of your virtualenv} for example you can say: python -3.5 -m -venv -THIS_IS_A_VIRTUALENV_IN_PYTHON35 and it'll create a virtualenv in python 3.5 (you have to add python 3.5 pip to Env Variables before) idk if that works with python 2 also, I don't use it either

I'm actually quite confused. Are you to install a virtualenv for every program you write? What do you do if you want your apache server to run the script? It is not going to be using virtualenv. How do you get one program written in one virtualenv to work with another program needing a different virtualenv? How does docker integrate with it all?

Are you running windows 11 with ubuntu subsytem?

A year+ later do you still prefer virtualenv over venv?

why don't you like conda?

This video left me more confused on which one is recommended to be used.

this tutorial became a bit confusing because you are explaining the difference between two different tools that kind of do the same thing, and where the thing that they create is referenced by the same name as one of those tools

How do you access windows cmd directly from Ubuntu ?

Though on pipenv?

can u upload a video about pyenv?

How about pyenv?

Having 2 packages managers with the very same name is soooo confusing from a beginner point of view

Tl,DR: just use virtualenv, not venv.

but how do you use conda with 6 different versions of python at once? how does no one mention this? conda can't handle different versions of python! why doesn't it work with this!

Hi. I guess you made a wrong statement at 9:28. You probably wanted to say. The advantage of virtualenv to venv is it works with python 2. It confuses because you started arguing about benefits of venv over virtualenv. Thx anyway for this comparison.👍

anything on microcrash is annoying

Hi, thanks for this clear video. I must be missing something about venv anyway as I still can't import google.cloud module. To install python3.10, I did: adding sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa sudo apt update sudo apt install python3.10 I installed venv: python3.10 -m venv venv Then in directory containing venv: . venv/bin/activate and once activated , I ran python3.10 -m pip install google.cloud and also python3.10 -m pip install google Installation of google.cloud semt ok Nevertheless when I run the following script ( venv still activated ) #!/usr/bin/python3.10 from google.cloud import bigquery # Construct a BigQuery client object. client = bigquery.Client() I get the following error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/ced/bigquery-gcloud/./survival_frequency", line 2, in from google.cloud import bigquery ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'google' Also changed the shebang to #!/usr/bin/env python, but it doesn't solve the issue. Thanks for your help