Virtualenv for New Pythonistas
PyCon US | April 2015
Renee Chu | @reneighbor | reneighbor on GitHub | Twilio
Matt Makai | @mattmakai | makaimc on GitHub | Twilio
Our day jobs
The Dependencies Problem
Under the covers
echo $PATH
echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
bin/activate
VIRTUAL_ENV = "/Users/demo/py/envs/ workproj/env"
export VIRTUAL_ENV
PATH = "$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin:$PATH"
echo $PATH
/Users/demo/py/envs/ workproj/env/bin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
Tips & Tricks
1. Aliases
Linux
~/.bashrc
Mac OS X
~/.bash_profile
2. Autoenv
Autoenv
.env
3. Virtualenvwrapper
For New Pythonistas
- The Dependencies Problem
- Virtualenv solution
- Inside the env directory
- Tips & Tricks
- Aliases
- Autoenv
- virtualenvwrapper
- Docker
Renee Chu
- Twilio Software Engineer
- reneighbor on GitHub
- renee@twilio.com
Matt Makai
- Twilio Developer Evangelist
- makaimc on GitHub
- makai@twilio.com