virtualenv+pip in ubuntu 10.04

Posted on May 5, 2010

There are many ways you can organise your projects in Python. One of them uses virtualenv and pip. They let you work on several projects simultaneously while they keep environments of each project separate. This way, each project can keep its own set of Python dependencies with different packages and different versions of packages.

Much has been written about virtualenv and pip. This guide will help you install virtualenv and pip in Ubuntu 10.04 in such a way it will be very easy to create new virtualenvs for your projects.