Virtual Environment
PyCharm will help us create a virtual environment. We want to develop our project in its own virtual environment in order to keep it isolated. Due to this, we will have absolute control over the versions of the packages that we are going to use.
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Exercise 5: Creating a Development Project in PyCharm
Before you start developing the Python application, you'll need to create a development project in PyCharm. PyCharm manages things using projects. In this exercise, you will learn how to create a new development project in PyCharm called Smilecook. You will also need to install the necessary packages for this project. Let's get started:
- Create the project and name it smilecook:
Figure 2.2: Creating a project
- Check the project structure and ensure that the virtual environment has been created. Once the module has been created, we will be able to see the project...