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Command Line Python Scripting:

Takeaways
by Dataquest Labs, Inc. - All rights reserved © 2021

Syntax
• Install Python packages
pip install [package name]

• Upgrade pip
pip install --upgrade pip

• Install the virtualenv tool


pip install virtualenv

• Note: Pyhon 3 should already have the venv module.


• Create a virtual evironment
virtualenv [name of environment]

• Change the Python interpreter


virtualenv -p [path to desired Python] [name of environment]

• Activate virtual environment


source [name of environment]/bin/activate

• Check Python version


python -V

• Check installed packages and version


pip freeze

• Switch a virtualenv off


deactivate

Concepts
• Command line python interpreter:
• Good for testing snippets of code quickly, as well as debugging.
• Not good for developing Python programs.
• Common way to develop with Python: use an IDE or text editor to create Python files, and then
run from command line.

• You can enter the default Python executable using python .

• We can access Python 3 using the python3 executable.

• Packages are an important way to extend Python's functionality.


• Pip is the best way to install packages from the command line.
• Virtual Environments allows us to have a certain version of Python and other packages without
worrying about how it will affect other projects on our system.
• By default, virtualenv will use the python executable.

• We can import functions from a package into a file as well as functions and classes into another
file.

Resources
• Python Package Index
• Python Virtual Environments - A Primer

Takeaways by Dataquest Labs, Inc. - All rights reserved © 2021

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