Setting up the development environment

As usual, we are going to start setting up the environment for development. In Chapter 4, Exchange Rates and the Currency Conversion Tool, you were introduced to pipenv, so in this and the following chapters, we are going to be using pipenv to create our virtual environment and manage our dependencies.

First, we want to create the directory where we are going to keep our project. In your working directory, create a directory called django-project as follows:

mkdir django-project && cd django-project

Now we can run pipenv to create our virtual environment:

pipenv --three

If you have Python 3 installed in another location, you can use the argument --python and specify the path where the Python executable is located. If everything went fine, you should see an output such as the following:

Now we can activate our virtual environment using the pipenv command shell:

pipenv shell

Great! The only dependency that we are going to add for now is Django.

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