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What is a Virtual Environment?
A virtual environment is an important tool that helps you create a unique isolated environment for each project
in Python. This means each environment will have its own set of activities, software usage settings, packages
used, including its own different Python versions. This is useful if you need different versions of Python or
packages for different projects. For example, if a Python developer is using version 2.8 for one project and
version 3.4 for another project then the virtual environment seems to be very useful in providing separate
environments.
Creating a Virtual Environment
The steps for creating a virtual environment using Anaconda distribution are given below:
• Go to Start → type Anaconda Prompt in Search and click on it to open Anaconda Prompt.
• This will open a window with default (base) written to show that it is the default environment in which the
anaconda works. We can create our own virtual environment to work in our own projects without affecting the
base virtual environment.
Let us create our own virtual environment by giving the following command at the prompt sign:
conda create -n myenvion Python=3.8.10
• The above code will create a new environment named myenvion with Python 3.8.10 and some basic packages
useful for working in it.
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