Python Tutorial: VENV (Windows) - How to Use Virtual Environments with the Built-In venv Module

In this Python Programming Tutorial, we will be learning how to use virtual environments on the Windows operating systems with the built-in venv module. We will learn how to create them, activate them, remove them, and much more. Let's get started...
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[@coreyms]

In my older virtualenv video, I got a ton of requests to show how to use virtual environments on Windows. I hope this helps!

[@InternationG]

Hey Corey, thank you as always, i was trying to debug a Python for loop and was not sure if you talk about it anywhere. Also realized that sublime text 3 does not actually feature a python debugger, would appreciate your thoughts on this.

[@guipa]

Thank you for all your videos. You should do one someday for pipenv!

[@guipa]

And multiprocessing/multithreading

[@guipa]

And sockets!

[@coreyms]

@@guipa I already have one for Pipenv. You can find that here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHW8fWVohrOcjc0

[@matiasgomez9416]

pip list > 2:13 python -m venv project_env > 2:29 project_env\Scripts\activate.bat > 3:24 where python > 3:46 pip install requests > 4:48 pip install pytz > 5:00 pip list > pip freeze > 5:47 --> copy information 'pip freeze' --> create requirements.txt > 6:37 --> paste information there deactivate > 7:16 rmdir project_env /s > 7:33 >> NEW PROJECT 8:48 python -m venv my_project\venv > 8:55 my_project\venv\Scripts\activate.bat pip install -r requirements.txt > 9:46 cd my_project > 10:50 --> create new file 'script.py' deactivate > rmdir venv /s > python -m venv venv --system-site-packages > 13:30 venv\Scripts\activate.bat > pip list > pip install SQLAlchemy pip list --local

[@i3130002]

should get pinned

[@amandeepmaroke6267]

The second hero after Corey Schafer :)

[@marcop-mb506]

Thank you sir.

[@fabiosegato8324]

great job mate, thanks!

[@desifoodie8371]

Is there any way to find out my existing virtual env?

[@user-gx9hk8gt3k]

Thank you for this tutorial! I couldn't figure out how to use VENV on my own, even though I read a book called " Test Driven Development" because the author explained how to use VENV on mac. Corey, you're the man!

[@doneenhesse8153]

This has been so helpful! My class focused mostly on programming, and so we didn't really understand what we were doing during setup, but your videos make it very clear and easy! Thank you!

[@Capt_X]

Corey...You are the Guru of python world..thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge as always!

[@pragatisingh192]

This is just perfect. I had been looking to understand venv for quite sometime now, and this clears it all. Great job!!!

[@SamarHussain1]

This is the best venv tutorial that I've ever seen. Its bookmarked in my browser for over 1.5 years now. I get back to it whenever I miss something. Thanks man (y)

[@simonolofsson7488]

This is exactly what I needed just now for my project which is rapidly growing in complexity. Thanks Corey!

[@parthzala9426]

Great tutorial! I am a hobbyist programmer, not an expert. I have been learning my self and this really helped.

[@micahjesse6580]

This is the best video I've seen this year so far!!! I might be exaggerating but you sir have helped me solve a problem I was working on for the last 20+ hrs!

[@hangfirers]

Thank you so much! I’ve searched and read and tried everything on the net on how to set up venv but this is the only one that worked.

[@JSRAumDhyanam]

Corey, I watched lot of videos about the environment and virtual environment but could not understand. Your explanations technique is the best. Thanks.

[@bryanaguilar402]

This was great. I was thinking of questions as the video moved along and then you ended up answering them all. Great work Corey.

[@tagifts]

He does that doesn't he. One of the most clear videos on venv.

[@mihaigrigore2136]

Thank you Corey for this excellent video on virtual environments. I needed it. You do not assume anything as known and this is very good, especially for beginners. For me, the best explanation on this topic I found!

[@ayodele_great]

Many thanks for this tutorial. You have saved me from what I spent a whole weekend trying to figure out.

[@kelvinokelvino783]

i was totally confuse and frustrated just before completing the 17 minutes of this video honestly i feel really relief now.. you got a new fan now man..... thank you...

[@ife_jeremiah]

This is a simple and straight to the point tutorial. Well done man. You've just gotten a subscriber.

[@legends_talk1]

Me too that was one of the best tutorials for real

[@ronilif]

Thank you Corey, I almost gave up trying to work with venv, until i saw this brilliant post...

[@rVnikov]

Yet another video from maestro Schafer that makes difficult subject looks pretty easy. Respect!

[@drissaitkassimusic]

This guy is a real instructor. Great work a lot of effort there thank you

[@isagive]

Thank you Corey, you actually explained away all the questions a noob like me came with. Things I just didn't understand and most videos skip, I guess cuz its obvious to the creator. Very helpful tutorial 🙏 thank u

[@donnie1581]

jesus you don't know how much this helped me. All tutorials I've watched were done on Mac haha

[@francisguchie1973]

This video is a simplified as a sip on a cup of coffee thank you so much Corey

[@ItzSenaCrazy]

I really needed this video. Thanks Corey!!

[@AhmetAnilDindar]

This is a very good video to learn venv module in short time. I appreciate your work.

[@thomaskirsch2209]

Great videos Corey. You are the go to when I am looking to understand something python. Thanks for helping the community!

[@bobfreeedu]

You are the best I have been like 2hour trying to figure it out , and with you it took like 1min

[@avivran1198]

Very good one! Thank buddy. I like your videos. Your attitude and way of passing the stuff to your viewers is just excellent.

[@alex08585]

This video saved me in setting up venv in windows, still relevant in 2021

[@st4willow]

Thank you so much Corey for making these wonderful videos. They are all easy to understand and follow. I learn so much from them. I will join patreon to contribute to the group. Thank you for all you do!

[@coreyms]

Thanks! That’s a huge help!

[@Quaght]

This was so helpful and concise. Thank you very much from a Python (heck, programming in general) noob!

[@p.9227]

This video really helps me a lot. Hope you'll make more videos like that.

[@bonnfranks5488]

My man...I've been struggling with this. Great video. Thank you so much.

[@stardevilyn]

This is very well explained and easy to follow. Thanks for the tutorial!

[@t.w.freiburg6125]

Great. Finally even me understood this stuff. I'd have a question. When I use venv and when I should use docker? A tutorial of this kind for docker would be awesome. Thanks a lot.

[@ajitkumar15]

Thank you so much for resolving the issue. other videos on KZbin wasted my time.

[@pipertripp]

Super helpful. Clear, concise, to the point. Thx much, m8.

[@kannanchandrasekaran3561]

This is helpful Corey, comprehensive and good phase!

[@nigelemccoy1534]

This guy is the GOAT, simple and easy tutorials! This helps alot!

[@scotttct]

Thanks Corey for creating this, I think every KZbin turorial uses Mac, and I could not find a decent source for learning Virtual Environments...

[@prateekupadhya1523]

Amazing tutorial - No one explains it like you do Corey!

[@nicolasduque3871]

This video was great for me, I'm just learing python for the first time and as a windows user it was easy to follow the steps, congratulations. It would be great if you are able to add the english subtitles in the video because as me that I'm not an english person many other people could watch the video easer reading the subtitles

[@pierrelesage1535]

Never found a more fitting video to my problem, thanks a lot!!

[@jake8217]

Man, you are just amazing. Very clear explanations. Saved me a lot of trouble.

[@VEGETADTX]

The single most important Python tutorial since Python's existence. Virtual environments are the most effective anti-hair loss treatment ever invented :)

[@ShahZ]

Thanks @Corey Schafer. trying to follow some Django tutorial on KZbin but just couldn't activate the virtual env, windows would accept the CMD but won't activate the venv : Setup: win 10, gitbash, python 3.7 Create the venv: python -m venv my_dir Activate the venv: source my_dir/Scripts/activate Stackoverflow to the rescue. Love your work btw thanks from the rest of us.

[@louism.4980]

Thank you so much, love how simple and clear this tutorial is! :)

[@onepercentdaily8772]

Even after 4 years, it is still a valid a video 😍

[@jackignatev]

Incredibly useful! Big thanks for detailed description and instructions

[@arthurfelde5437]

You are talking very fast, but you covered everything important to know. Many Thanks for that

[@daniyarkaisan8387]

Thank you! That was the best explanation I encountered on KZbin!

[@AegirAexx]

Thank you Corey. All this virtual environment stuff was really confusing regarding how many of them there are. I'm going to stick with the baked in one, venv.

[@mistwire]

Thanks for posting this, now I finally get how to use it in Windows :-)

[@rafaelmrtnz]

Thank you, that was really informative! Clears up questions.

[@soumyajitsarkar2372]

This is the best video on the subject of python virtual environment! Thank You .

[@financephofun7090]

Thank you for sharing! saves a ton of time, trying to search for solutions on your own

[@markettext]

Good video, cleared a lot up. The programming is easier than the setup.

[@tullymars420]

Fantastic video!! I am so grateful for this content!! I fell like I just made a leap in my coding journey!! Thank you so much!!!

[@xsandwichxxsandwichx1778]

Thx Corey! This video is still helping me out in 2022

[@pcbekri340]

you are awesome i don't have words to describe how helpful this video was thanks alooot man

[@MosharofHossainZitu]

Thanks Corey Schafer, it was a very helpful tutorial!

[@ZajoSTi]

Best venv tutorial hands down. Thank you. Subscribed :)

[@sonali_dhamanekar]

Loved the solution finally my problem is solved.. bless you man.

[@yash9089]

Thank you for this, you are the foundation of whatever i do or develop related to python

[@sameerspl]

Awesome Man . You are awesome Corey . Thanks a ton . I love the way you make things simpler .

[@user-di4bt7qu2i]

Pretty much what the rest of the comments say - great video and thanks once again!

[@larsalbrecht6964]

Very clear and super helpful, thanks a lot for this tutorial!

[@cm_dev]

Your videos are the best. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@polakpuckstopper]

superb video that provided me with everything I needed - no more, no less. thanks so much!

[@JohnJohn-bo2fo]

Great video. With a lot of best practice tips, that we need to know. Thank you very much.

[@Shmoji]

Thank you so much. Do you need to activate the virtual environment anytime you are working on a project or just whenever you need to upgrade/add/change packages or dependencies?

[@averydrago]

Very helpful and you make it very intuitive, thank you!

[@kyle9371]

Had trouble activating venv so I had to cd into Scripts, dir to see the contents and activate.bat, but it worked! thnx

[@fillipemadureira9210]

Corey, I tried running venv but I got this error: Error: Command '['C:\\Users\\Fillipe Madureira\\Desktop\\project_env\\Scripts\\python.exe', '-Im', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']' returned non-zero exit status 101. Can't find what it means... Any idea? Thanks for the help and all the tutorials, man. They have been incredibly useful to a newcomer.

[@pedrograngeiro3849]

Thank you so much. In 2021 this video is really good, but i had changed the second command to "python3 -m venv project_env". Just add the 3 in python.

[@shreyraval3284]

Most simplest explanation there can ever be! 100000%

[@wz4735]

Thank you for showing this :) You made it looked so easy

[@gburbano92]

@ 3:34 my issue was solved thanks for the content!

[@pready5082]

Loved it! So detailed and clear

[@mjj2u2]

Great job. I found this very helpful.

[@salarghaffarian4914]

You are the best instructor!

[@cborrero2000]

Amazing and comprehensive video, Many thanks Corey.

[@Gurfbagel]

Thanks, this was really helpful for me!

[@tymothylim6550]

Thank you very much for this video :) It is very helpful and I learnt a lot!

[@maxwellnganyadi922]

This has cleared up so much for me! Thanks!

[@kanishkmair2920]

Hey Corey, though 'where python' shows similar to what you found, while implementing it doesn't default to the 2nd option. As of now, I've been downloading the already present Pillow and other libraries in the venv. Any ideas to solve this redundancy?

[@aliyanpops6424]

Thanks sir you're a blessing you're way of explanation is easy and interesting.

[@pickavana8056]

Thanks for this. I had read that you should create a virtual environments folder and then create all environments in that folder. Im using VSCode so i tried this and set ENV path. I can easily toggle between environments by selecting python interpreter, but Im getting an odd issue that I can run a script in terminal or debug but when I Ctrl Alt N to run, I get "module not found" even though code shows it is found (no underlines etc). I will try this method instead. You had project on desktop. With multiple projects, is it ok to have "py" folder on desktop and then proj1, proj2 etc as subs? What editor do you use?

[@andreyminin7259]

This video is PERFECT!!! Can you make all youtube tutorials, please? :) Thank you!!

[@mayanksinha509]

thank you sir your video clear my lost of doubts

[@letudiantg474]

Hey Corey, I'm following your tutorial and it has been an amazing journey, I really appreciate the good explanations on each topic. I have a quick clarification, I'm using VSCode and if I would like the VSCode to use the current packages inside my venv folder for my current project how do I get it to refer the venv folder instead of the standard installation of python. I got VScode to point the venv folder for python.exe (by editing the settings.json for my workspace) but i would like it to use the rest of the libraries(eg. pandas, matplotlib etc) installed in there which i dont have in the root python folder on my machine.

[@sapien1877]

Thank you so much, exactly what I needed!

[@lskk445]

Hi Corey, Thanks a ton for videos, I had a question I installed some libraries, for eg ,rasa_nlu in venv , but when I run jupyter notebook , notebook shows still old version, How can i use venv libraries in jupyter notebook, Thanks in advance

[@marinaurrey5246]

Thank you for this video! It's super understandable and everything working. That's what I was looking for. Thank you)

[@okechukwubenjamin7280]

Best tutor that ever seen, this is so helpful to me you literally solved my problem, God bless you❤️❤️❤️

[@christosgeorgiadis7462]

Very clear and to the point, thank you!

[@Vivian-ve1qt]

Very well explained. So grateful for these videos. 🙏

[@allaabdella4794]

Thanks, very good tutorial Corey!

[@pradhumnsharma5982]

Awesome and Easily understandable explaination.

[@arctic-1878]

Excellent tutorial, thank you! 😀

[@hikarispringsummer481]

Thank you !!!! it really solved my problem, it's reaaaaaaaally healpful !