Virtual enviroment (local TESTS) - JorgeFrancoIbanez/FlaskForm GitHub Wiki

As is said in the Flask Documentation, virtualenv allow you to change between different versions of Python or different versions of Python libraries to use it for different projects no only for Flask-based web applications. More information: http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/dev/virtualenvs/

Installation

There's actually 2 way to install it.

    • Via pip installation, if you already have pip just run:

      • $ sudo pip install virtualenv

    • If not:

      • $ sudo apt-get -y install python-pip
      • $ sudo pip install virtualenv

  2. Via package manager.

    • $ sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv

Configuring your virtual environment

After installing virtualenv let's create your folder project:

+ $ mkdir myproject
+ $ cd myproject
+ $ virtualenv venv

virtualenv venv this command will create your new environment. Now you need to activate your environment and start setting up your required libraries.

+ $ . venv/bin/activate

and to deactivate it:

+ $ deactivate

For this project we need Flask and Flask-web, so let's install it.

+ $ pip install Flask flask-mysql