Creating a Virtual Environment

Creating a virtual sandbox with the virtualenv package is quite easy. All you need to do is the following:

Where FOLDER_NAME is the name of the folder that you want your sandbox to go. On my Windows 7 machine, I have C:\Python34\Scripts added to my path so I can just call virtualenv.py FOLDER_NAME without the python part. If you don’t pass it anything, then you’ll get a list of options printed out on your screen. Let’s say we create a project called sandbox. How do we use it? Well, we ...