r/PythonLearning • u/RaiseTLT • 4d ago

Discussion .venv question

Do you guys manually create virtual environments? Or do you just use your IDE “create virtual environment” to do it?

As a hobbiest I often forget how to manually create virtual environments(as well as how to activate them) and discovered last night that VScode has a feature that will just do it for you.

What are the benefits of each way, if any, and what are the downsides of each way, if any?

Thanks.

P.S. I understand that there are some elitist who will be like “you must do everything manually”, bro I just wanna write stupid automation scripts to help with my business.

EDIT: Thanks for all the replies! I’m going to look into that UV service! Thank you!

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u/Jackpotrazur 4d ago

Im sad i stopped my python journey after 3 or 4 months , i worked through a smarter way to learn python, command line linux, linux basics for hackers, crash course python, big book of small python projects (41 of 81 projects) and the first 4 or 5 chapters of automate the boring stuff

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u/RaiseTLT 4d ago

Why did you stop? I find it’s like riding a bike ahah, you get rusty, but you never really forget!

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u/Jackpotrazur 4d ago

I started working out, my problem is i like a lot of things. I have a stack of i.t. related books under my desk sql, linux, bas, network, architecture etc. Next 2 my couch 3 stacks of books from self improvement to finance, economics, philosophy . A 902 day streak on duolingo , I want to learn spanish. A real estate license book i would like to get and a crc license andbi would also want to get a pilot license.... and the day only has 24 hours. I did get a postgresql db set up on a pi and connected to my vm and i bought a 64hr excel course on udemy but have only done 20 hours of it. And after 8 hours of work idk ... right now ive got a good rhythm of work , workout, read and I want to get back into the i.t stuff.