Virtual Environment (Python venv)
Introduction
The program venv
is a Python module that provides support for
creating lightweight and segregated Python execution environments.
According to the Python Foundation's Documentation:
The venv module supports creating lightweight "virtual environments", each with their own independent set of Python packages installed in their site directories. A virtual environment is created on top of an existing Python installation, known as the virtual environment’s "base" Python, and may optionally be isolated from the packages in the base environment, so only those explicitly installed in the virtual environment are available.
Using venv
is the recommended way to create and manage virtual environments and
is part of managing the versions of python and its dependencies.