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Simplifying common operations – using the virtualenvwrapper tool

A tool that I use frequently is virtualenvwrapper, which is a very small set of smart defaults and command aliases that makes working with virtual environments more intuitive. Let's install this to our global system now:

$ pip install virtualenvwrapper

Note

This will also install the virtualenv package as well in case it is not already present.

Next, you'll want to add the following lines to the end of your shell startup file. This is most likely ~/.bashrc, but in case you've changed your default shell to something else such as zsh, then it could be different (for example, ~/.zshrc):

export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

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