Create virtualenvs in project directories

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 12:59:33 +0200

It's quite handy to create the virtual environment aka venv for a python project in the project folder itself. This means:

No huge .virtualenvs folder in your home directory with a lot of envs which you will never use again (The one on this computer is 1.2 GB big although I do not work with many Python projects at all(!)). If you are done with a project and delete all local files, the corresponding environment will be gone with it.
Pointing your editor/IDE to the current virtual env as well as deleting it is easy, because it is right there in the project root folder.

As there are many tools in this realm, obviously every one of them handles things a little bit differently and it is the default for none of the popular ones:

Pipenv on Personal weblog

Create virtualenvs in project directories