Basic set up for a simple Python environment

Create and activate a virtual environment (optional but recommended):

• On Windows:

  python -m venv venv

• On macOS/Linux:

  python3 -m venv venv

To activate the virtual environment after initialising a virtual environment, simply run:

source venv/bin/activate

Install dependencies from requirements.txt:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Or install other libraries, using requests as an example:

pip install requests

Deactivating the Environment

To deactivate the virtual environment, simply run:

deactivate