How a Python Virtual Environment Works
Virtual environments are what we use in Python to allow us to isolate project dependencies from one another. But how do they work?
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How to Create a Python Virtual Environment By Hand
Learn how much your favourite venv manager automates away when it creates virtual environments by creating your own by hand.
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One Does Not Simply 'pip install'
Find your favourite package and turn to the readme to get it installed - it seems dead simple just a ‘pip install’ away. Nothing could possibly go wrong. Right?
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Coding on the Steam Deck
I got the Valve Steam Deck last month and have instantly become obsessed with it. I wanted to know if I could use it as a linux dev machine, knowing that it was essentially a full blown PC under the hood.
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Python isn’t Used in Prod
I watched a video earlier this week by comedian and mathematician Matt Parker. It’s an entertaining walkthrough of some impressive optimisation of his own Python code by his community but there's a comment about Python that I thought warranted some pushback.
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PyCon UK 2022
This past weekend I've been attending PyCon UK. I'm particularly lucky in that I live a 10 min train ride from where it is located in Cardiff meaning its incredibly convenient and economic for me. As a Python dev located here, there's literally no excuse not to attend.
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Getting Poetry to use the active Pyenv to Create a Virtual Environment
I found with a new poetry install that it refused to use the pyenv version of Python.
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