Basic instructions for setting up a virtual environment

virtual-env-install.md

1. Install virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper:

sudo pip install virtualenv

sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper

2. Create virtual environment folder

mkdir ~/.environments

3. Edit your bash profile with vim to point to the newly created virtual environment folder.

echo "export WORKON_HOME=~/.environments" >> ~/.bashrc
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

4. Source your bash profile

source ~/.bashrc

5. Test run mkvirtualenv. Create new environments in python 3 with

mkvirtualenv -p `which python3` city-scrapers

6. Check your virtual environment folder for the newly created virtual environment

7. To activate the environment, type workon your-env-name. To exit, type deactivate

🤔 rather than modifying the ./bashrc and using mkvirtualenv, one could also place their ./environments/ directory in the same directory as the project. The following steps would do the trick:

• cd <wherever-you-cloned-it>/city-scrapers/
• virtualenv -p python3.6 venv
• source venv/bin/activate

Then if you run which python, it should contain the path for the current directory.

For mac users, your bash profile might be located at vi ~/.bash_profile or nano .bash_profile to use the linux text editor. If that works for you, then you'll also need to run source ~/.bash_profile.