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Django - Create Virtual Environment

Virtual Environment

It is suggested to have a dedicated virtual environment for each Django project, and one way to manage a virtual environment is venv , which is included in Python.

The name of the virtual environment is your choice, in this tutorial we will call it myworld .

Type the following in the command prompt, remember to navigate to where you want to create your project:

python -m venv myworld

This will set up a virtual environment, and create a folder named "myworld" with subfolders and files, like this:

myworld
 Include
 Lib
 Scripts
 .gitignore
 pyvenv.cfg

Then you have to activate the environment, by typing this command:

Windows

myworld\Scripts\activate.bat

Unix/MacOS

source myworld/bin/activate

Once the environment is activated, you will see this result in the command prompt:

Windows

(myworld) C:\Users\
Your Name
>

Unix/MacOS

(myworld) ... $

Note

You must activate the virtual environment every time you open the command prompt to work on your project.

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