Virtualenv - A Deep Dive

Published: 01 January 1970
on channel: PyCharm, a JetBrains IDE
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virtualenv is a tool that builds virtual environments for #Python. It was first created in September 2007, and just went through a rewrite from scratch. Did you ever want to know what parts virtual environments can be broken down into? Or how they work? And how does #virtualenv differ from the Python builtin venv? This is the webinar you want.

Audience Level: Intermediate - For those who want to get a better understanding of the virtual environments in Python.

Contents
00:00 - Intro
01:00 - Basics of virtual environments
03:50 - Activation script
07:24 - First batch of questions
17:00 - Why a rewrite of virtualenv?
22:19 - Next questions
30:58 - What's hard about Python packaging
40:27 - Next questions
46:00 - Alternate non-install of virtualenv using zipapps
48:37 - Last questions

About the Presenter
Bernat Gabor has been using Python since 2011 and has been a busy participant in the open-source Python community. He is the maintainer of the virtualenv package, which allows the creation of Python virtual environments for all Python versions and interpreter types, including CPython, Jython and PyPy. He also maintains tox and has contributed to various other Python packages.

Bernat works at Bloomberg, a technology company with more than 6,000 software engineers around the world – 2,000 of whom use Python in their daily roles. Finally, he is part of the company's Python Guild, a group of engineers dedicated to improving the adoption, usage, and best practices of Python within the company.

Categories: #PyCharm #webinar


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