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zihao sun
zihao sun

Reputation: 1

How to create an virtual working environment?

I wish to use Django to create a Web app, but first I need to create an virtual environment.

Since I have a Windows system, I have used Win+R and cmd to open the teriminal, then the system shows C:\Users\HP>, I tried to create a datalog named learning_log and use terminal to switch to this datalog, so I typed in learning_log$ python -m venv 11_env, but the system shows 'learning_log$' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

May I know how to create a datalog and how to create an virtual working environment?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 78

Answers (2)

Amin Ali
Amin Ali

Reputation: 55

First you need to install virtualenv library:

  • pip3 install virtualenv

After installing virtualenv, now create virtual environment directory with any name:

  • virtualenv myvenv

Now you can see, myvenv folder. now you can activate the virtual environment using that folder location:

  • .\myvenv\Scripts\activate.bat

Now you can see the virtual environment activated and you can see (myvenv) on your command prompt.

Upvotes: 0

Ben Rauzi
Ben Rauzi

Reputation: 604

It's unclear to me why you need a 'datalog' to create a Django web app, so I'll just help out with the VENV side of things.

To create a virtual environment in Python:

A full guide to getting started with a virtual environment in Django can be found here.

Open the current directory in a terminal. The easiest way to do this is probably open command prompt like you did.

Win Key + R -> cmd

Then copy the directory to your current folder from the top of File Explorer e.g. C:\Users\user_name\Documents\test_venv

Then paste this into the terminal like so

python -m venv "C:\Users\user_name\Documents\test_venv"

This will create a virtual environment at that directory. Now navigate to that directory using terminal cd "C:\Users\user_name\Documents\test_venv" and you can perform your next actions.

It's easiest to do this if you have an IDE and can just set it up to load a terminal in your current directory. Then you don't need to navigate to it and can just create the virtual environment at the current directory.

Upvotes: 1

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