🔒 Virtual Environments

[tiny trellis]

Hello, I'm curious to know more about how virtual environments work, as they seem pretty useful. However, I'm a little confused on how they work after reading up on them and would love some clarification

My current understanding is that venv is a folder within my project that holds all dependencies that I've installed using pip. Does this mean that my project folder structure would look something like Projects > Project 1, Project 2, etc > venv, code 1, code 2? Thus, I don't put any of my code within the venv folder but rather outside? How do I make it such that the programs are running on the dependencies within the venv?

lol I'm not sure if I phrased this correctly but I hope I made my question understandable.

[cinder atlas]

@tiny trellis

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[tiny trellis]

Also, I may have previously pip installed some modules in global & other venvs. Is there any way to find out which dependencies are within global vs venv without remembering how I structured my system lmao

(im cooked)

[candid carbon]

you can pick where the venv folder goes. typically it's in the same as the project folder, and yes your code will be outside of it. you shouldn't be messing with the venv folder manually. so you'd have a project folder, project1, with a .venv folder inside that. the rest of your files will be inside just project1 (not project1/.venv)

[tiny trellis]

ok cool

thank you so much

[candid carbon]

i've done this a few times. it's not a big deal, you can just leave them

[tiny trellis]

alr

[cinder atlas]

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