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aman
aman

Reputation: 393

package not being permanently installed inside the python virtual environment

I'm building a rest-api using the Django Python framework. I'm using many external python packages. I have created a python virtual environment (python -m venv venv) and after activating the venv environment (venv\Scripts\activate), I installed the requests package (python -m pip install requests). Then I pushed my project to my git repo and cloned it onto another machine. When I tried to run my Django project, it asked me to install the requests package again. Why or how can I permanently install packages into my python virtual environment or someplace else where I wouldn't have to install packages again on different machines? I'm looking for a solution similar to NodeJS - npm of installing packages as all the packages are locally installed into the node_modules folder of the project and you don't have to reinstall them on different machines. Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 124

Answers (1)

Steinn Hauser Magnússon
Steinn Hauser Magnússon

Reputation: 1365

The environment itself is not shareable in the way you specify. I'd recommend to use Docker for this use-case. If you create a docker image which has the correct dependencies, then you can easily operate in the same environment on different computers. The python venv cannot be used this way.

Nevertheless, if your requirements.txt files specify package versions, then the venv you create on the two machines should be relatively similar (depending of course on other parameters like the OS, python version, etc.).

Upvotes: 2

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