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Daniel Arbuckle???s Mastering Python

You're reading from   Daniel Arbuckle???s Mastering Python Build powerful Python applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787283695
Length 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Python Primer FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up 3. Making a Package 4. Basic Best Practices 5. Making a Command-Line Utility 6. Parallel Processing 7. Coroutines and Asynchronous I/O 8. Metaprogramming 9. Unit Testing 10. Reactive Programming 11. Microservices 12. Extension Modules and Compiled Code

Using venv to create a stable and isolated work area

When we're working on a project, we usually like the parts of the project that aren't our own code to stay the same. We might have a good reason to install a new version of Python or updated library on our system, but we don't really want those things to change within our development environment. Even more so, we can easily find ourselves targeting entirely different and incompatible system configurations with different projects. We need a way to set aside an area for each project that is separate and can be configured for the specific needs of that project. That's what we call a virtual environment.

The venv tool that's built in to Python 3.3, and later, creates a virtual environment for us. Each virtual environment created by venv knows which version of Python it should be using and has its own package...

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