How do I activate python virtual environment from a different repo?

Question

So am working in a group project, we are using python and of the code is on GitHub. My question is how do I activate the virtual environment? Do I make one on my own using the "python virtual -m venv env" or the one that's on the repo, if there is such a thing. Thanks

Answer 1

virtual env is used to make your original env clean. you can pip install virtualenv and then create a virtual env like virtualenv /path/to/folder then use source /path/to/folder/bin/activate to activate the env. then you can do pip install -r requirements.txt to install dependencies into the env. then everything will be installed into /path/to/folder/lib

alteratively, you can use /path/to/folder/bin/pip install or /path/to/folder/bin/python without activating the env.

Answer 2

Yes, you'll want to create your own with something like: python -m venv venv . The final argument specifies where your environment will live; you could put it anywhere you like. I often have a venv folder in Python projects, and just .gitignore it.

After you have the environment, you can activate it. On Linux: source venv/bin/activate . Once activated, any packages you install will go into it; you can run pip install -r requirements.txt for instance.