Packaging and Virtual Environments

What you'll learn

• Why isolated environments matter
• Basic packaging metadata
• Repeatable dependency management

Explanation

Virtual environments prevent dependency conflicts across projects. Packaging tools make code installable and easier to share.

Example

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Common mistakes

• Installing dependencies globally
• Committing local virtual environment folders

Exercises

See Foundations Exercises.

Further reading

• https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/tutorials/installing-packages/