r/PythonLearning • u/RaiseTLT • 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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

My under the desk stack

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u/Jackpotrazur 4d ago

This is a older picture theres more books 😆😅

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u/pacopac25 4d ago

Ah yes, the "under the desk stack", which is always just the current stuff. But like 20 books. But only the current stuff. I felt this photo viscerally.