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Python Virtual Environment

Installation

Using pip 

python -m pip install --user virtualenv
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Create folder to local python packages 

python -m virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
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Install colorama package 

pip install colorama
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Call colorama 

from pip._vendor.colorama import init, Fore
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Install python-dotenv package 

pip install python-dotenv
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Usage

create .env file

DATABASE_CONFIG=my_database_config
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In settings.py 

from dotenv import load_dotenv
import os

# load all env variables from .env file
load_dotenv()

# print out the value
print(os.getenv('DATABASE_CONFIG'))
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python --version
pip --version # */venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip (python 3.8)

python3.8 settings.py
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