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Chris Grazioli
Chris Grazioli
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Posted by Chris Grazioli
Chris Grazioli
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Where can I find out how to install a virtual env?

I've tried installing the virtual env, but seem to screw it up on my windows machine, even though I believe I install python in the PATH or whatever. Where can I find a good tutorial in installing a virtual env on a windows machine

3 Answers

Alx Ki
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  1. Here is an explanation by Kenneth Love: How to set Virtualenv on Windows 2.(Example) Here I set Virtualenv for example project in "exproject" folder using cmd.exe:
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10586]

C:\Users\Alexey>mkdir exproject

C:\Users\Alexey>cd exproject

C:\Users\Alexey\exproject>python -m venv venv_folder

C:\Users\Alexey\exproject>venv_folder\Scripts\activate.bat
(venv_folder) C:\Users\Alexey\exproject>pip install flask
Collecting flask
  Using cached Flask-0.11.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting click>=2.0 (from flask)
  Using cached click-6.6.tar.gz
Collecting Werkzeug>=0.7 (from flask)
  Using cached Werkzeug-0.11.11-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting Jinja2>=2.4 (from flask)
  Using cached Jinja2-2.8-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting itsdangerous>=0.21 (from flask)
  Using cached itsdangerous-0.24.tar.gz
Collecting MarkupSafe (from Jinja2>=2.4->flask)
  Using cached MarkupSafe-0.23.tar.gz
Installing collected packages: click, Werkzeug, MarkupSafe, Jinja2, itsdangerous, flask
  Running setup.py install for click ... done
  Running setup.py install for MarkupSafe ... done
  Running setup.py install for itsdangerous ... done
Successfully installed Jinja2-2.8 MarkupSafe-0.23 Werkzeug-0.11.11 click-6.6 flask-0.11.1 itsdangerous-0.24
You are using pip version 8.1.1, however version 8.1.2 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

(venv_folder) C:\Users\Alexey\exproject>

Done!

Idan Melamed
Idan Melamed
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Idan Melamed
Idan Melamed
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Virtualenv confused me a bit for a while.

Can you look at this link, and tell us what step do you have problems with?