To create the virtual environment, open a command line and enter the following command structure, virtualenv {environment name}. In this case, the name of the environment is cartoenv:
Inside the folder where virtualenv is created, a series of folders are generated with the code files necessary to support Python. There is also a Lib folder, which contains the site-packages folder that will hold all of the modules installed inside this virtual version of Python:
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