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pyenv-virtualenv

pyenv let you manage multiple versions of Python easily. It's simple, unobtrusive, and follows the UNIX tradition of single-purpose tools do one thing well.

pyenv-virtualenv is a pyenv plugin that provides features to manage Python virtual environments for Python on UNIX-like systems.

How to install?

1. Install build dependencies

As pyenv installs Python by building from source, which means it needs OS-specific dependencies. Before installing pyenv, you will need to install its build dependencies first.

For Ubuntu/Debian,

$ sudo apt-get install -y build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev \
libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev wget curl llvm \
libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev xz-utils tk-dev libffi-dev \
liblzma-dev python3-openssl make

For Fedora/CentOS/RHEL,

$ sudo yum install gcc zlib-devel bzip2 bzip2-devel readline-devel \
sqlite sqlite-devel openssl-devel xz xz-devel libffi-devel

For openSUSE,

$ zypper in zlib-devel bzip2 libbz2-devel libffi-devel \
libopenssl-devel readline-devel sqlite3 sqlite3-devel xz xz-devel

For MacOS,

$ brew install openssl readline sqlite3 xz zlib

2. Install pyenv package

For Linux/Unix, use pyenv-installer to install pyenv,

$ curl https://pyenv.run | bash

It would install pyenv application, as well as several other plugins, including pyenv-virtualenv.

For MacOS, you can run this command,

$ brew install pyenv pyenv-virtualenv

After the installation, then need to config .bashrc, bash_profile, or .zshrc file, depending on what OS system and shell script you are using.

export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"
[[ -d $PYENV_ROOT/bin ]] && export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(pyenv init -)"

eval "$(pyenv virtualenv-init -)"

Next to source the config file, or restart your shell environment to make the configuration taking effect.

To validate the installtion,

$ pyenv --version
$ pyenv virtualenv --version

More information about the installation? Please refer to the documentation

Different Python versions

Let's run the following command to create a virtual environment,

$ pyenv virtualenv 3.9.9 testenv
pyenv-virtualenv: `3.9.9' is not installed in pyenv.
Run `pyenv install 3.9.9' to install it

Apparently, it does not run successfully, because I don't have Python 3.9.0 available on my machine as base to create such a virtual environment.

What should we do? As shown above, we need to use pyenv to install according Python version first, then to create the virtualenv.

1. Install specific Python versions

Use the following command to check available Python versions for installation:

$ pyenv install --list

Then install a specific version like this:

$ pyenv install 3.9.9
$ pyenv install 3.12.0

As pyenv builds Python from the source, it may take a couple of minutes to install.

Where the Python version is installed?

$ ls ~/.pyenv/versions/
3.12.0  3.9.9

2. Uninstall specific Python versions

To uninstall a specific Python version, run this command:

$ pyenv uninstall 3.9.9

Therefore, pyenv could help you manage multiple Python versions on the machine easily. Based on the available Python versions, you can create desired Python virtual environment easily as well.

How to use?

1. Create a virtual environment

Use the following command to create a virtualenv,

$ pyenv virtualenv 3.12.0 testenv

Where this testenv virtual environment installed?

$ ls ~/.pyenv/versions 
3.12.0  testenv

What's inside of testenv directory?

testenv
├── bin
│   ├── activate
│   ├── activate.csh
│   ├── activate.fish
│   ├── Activate.ps1
│   ├── pip
│   ├── pip3
│   ├── pip3.12
│   ├── pydoc
│   ├── python -> python3.12
│   ├── python3 -> python3.12
│   ├── python3.12 -> ~/.pyenv/versions/3.12.0/bin/python3.12
│   ├── python3.12-config -> ~/.pyenv/versions/3.12.0/bin/python3.12-config
│   ├── python3-config -> ~/.pyenv/versions/3.12.0/bin/python3-config
│   └── python-config -> ~/.pyenv/versions/3.12.0/bin/python-config
├── include
│   └── python3.12
├── lib
│   └── python3.12
├── lib64 -> lib
└── pyvenv.cfg

6 directories, 15 files

2. Activate the virtual environment

Use this command to list your available virtualenvs,

$ pyenv virtualenvs

To activate the virtual environment, use this command:

$ pyenv activate testenv

Or you can use the following command,

$ pyenv local testenv

3. Manage Python packages

To install or uninstall a single package within virtual environment, run

$ pip install <package-name>

To install a list of Python packages in requirements.txt, run

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

To uninstall the Python package,

$ pip uninstall <package-name>

4. Deactivate the virtual environment

To deactivate the virtual environment,

$ pyenv deactivate

If you use pyenv local activate your virtual environment, then

$ pyenv local --unset

5. Delete the virtual environment

To remove the virtual environment,

$ pyenv virtualenv-delete testenv

More information about these packages

Happy Coding!