Creating a virtual environment

One of the biggest difficulties with Django developers is that a project created in one Django version is not compatible with another project in a different Django version. A virtual environment is a Python tool that will create a new environment. Each virtual environment is project-specific and isolated with its own set of packages, settings, and dependencies. Therefore, a virtual environment is one solution to resolve the version difficulty of Django projects. The steps to create a virtual environment are as follows:

1. First, create a separate folder for our Django work, as follows:

[root@ip-172-31-95-213 src]# mkdir django_app
[root@ip-172-31-95-213 src]# cd django_app
[root@ip-172-31-95-213 django_app]

2. Next, run the following command to create a new virtual environment:

[root@ip-172-31-95-213 django_app]# pip python3.7 -m venv venv

Following the execution of the preceding command, a directory called venv will be created. It contains a copy of the...