Windows Virtual Environment in Python

Let's consider a scenario where you have multiple projects on your machine and all of those are using some different version libraries. Let's say one of your projects uses NumPy 1.18 and another uses NumPy 1.19 so in that situation virtual environments come so handy. Let's see how to create a Virtual Environment on windows using git bash.

Open the terminal and go to your python project's root directory and type:

python -m venv virtual_environment_name

Go to the file Scripts that are added by default with venv:

cd .\virtual_environment_name\Scripts

Now activate the environment by using the command:

source activate

This activates the virtual environment, now whatever package you install with pip, will stay inside this virtual environment.

You can deactivate the env later on using:

deactivate

That was it :)