Creating your python workspace

After using virtualenv for a long time, I found myself in an “entanglement” for my latest project. I’m glad to say I found a better way to manage dependencies. (The commands below were run on Mac)

pyenv

Install py env:

brew install pyenv

For windows please click this link.

Then you can install your desired python version (3.9 at the time of writing). You can also install multiple versions to use in different projects.:

pyenv install 3.9.0

To change your global python version use:

pyenv global 3.9.0

Followed by:

eval "$(pyenv init -)"

This will ensure your default python version is the pyenv version.

Create new directory

mkdir new_project&& cd new_project

Now that we are inside our folder we can simply run:

pyenv local 3.9.0

Now we have ensured that our new_project will be using the desired python version.

pipenv

Install pip env

pip install -U pipenv

Make sure you are in your project directory.

cd new_project
pipenv install 

We have now initialized a new project. This process will create a pipfile.lock. If there was a requirements.txt it will move over your packages.

Installing new packages

To install new packages

pipenv install package-name

Installing Jupyter notebook

pipenv install ipykernel
pipenv shell

python -m ipykernel install --user --name=my-virtualenv-name

To start your jupyter notebook

jupyter notebook

Resources

A more Comprehensive breakdown of the two packages can be found here.