Sep-04-2022, 12:32 PM
Hello Everyone,
I am trying to understand how to use virtual environments and different IDEs without problems...Let me start by explaining my current understanding of virtual environments: a virtual environment is a smart way to isolate projects from each other. I think of it as a "folder" that contains dependencies, scripts, as well as a specific version of the Python interpreter. Here my questions:
a) Should every virtual environment always contain a Python interpreter along with modules and the scripts that we want to run? I guess so since it would not make sense to have a virtual environment without a Python interpreter.
When working with virtual environments, the steps are:
- create a virtual environment
- use pip to install the Python interpreter as well as the required modules
b) How do we then use our IDE of preference(assuming we have several on our computer) to write scripts that will use the Python interpreter and modules living inside the virtual environment? Do we launch the IDE and and activate the specific virtual environment from it?
c) Anytime we download an IDE (PyCharm, Thonny, Jupyter, etc.) are we automatically downloading another Python interpreter? If we use multiple IDEs, how do we keep everything synced up so that when I switch IDE and write scripts with it I can still import the installed modules? I tend to think that every IDE uses its own interpreter and can use only the modules that were installed through it because they are saved in a specific folder where the IDE looks for them...
Thank you!
I am trying to understand how to use virtual environments and different IDEs without problems...Let me start by explaining my current understanding of virtual environments: a virtual environment is a smart way to isolate projects from each other. I think of it as a "folder" that contains dependencies, scripts, as well as a specific version of the Python interpreter. Here my questions:
a) Should every virtual environment always contain a Python interpreter along with modules and the scripts that we want to run? I guess so since it would not make sense to have a virtual environment without a Python interpreter.
When working with virtual environments, the steps are:
- create a virtual environment
- use pip to install the Python interpreter as well as the required modules
b) How do we then use our IDE of preference(assuming we have several on our computer) to write scripts that will use the Python interpreter and modules living inside the virtual environment? Do we launch the IDE and and activate the specific virtual environment from it?
c) Anytime we download an IDE (PyCharm, Thonny, Jupyter, etc.) are we automatically downloading another Python interpreter? If we use multiple IDEs, how do we keep everything synced up so that when I switch IDE and write scripts with it I can still import the installed modules? I tend to think that every IDE uses its own interpreter and can use only the modules that were installed through it because they are saved in a specific folder where the IDE looks for them...
Thank you!