Skip to content

PRO TIP Block youtube.com at the DNS level — Pi-hole, NextDNS or your hosts file — but allow youtube-nocookie.com and i.ytimg.com. These tutorials keep playing; the rabbit hole does not.

Learning without distractions

Python Virtual Environment and pip for Beginners

79K views on YouTube

Dave Gray 102 tutorials here
Programming

Web Dev Roadmap for Beginners (Free!): https://bit.ly/DaveGrayWebDevRoadmap

Python virtual environment and pip for beginners. In this tutorial, you will learn what pip is for and how to use python virtual environments with pip. We will also build a Weather app in a venv virtual environment.

💖 Support me on Patreon ➜ https://patreon.com/davegray

⭐ Become a full-stack dev with Zero To Mastery Courses:
– The Complete Python Developer: https://bit.ly/CompPythonDev
– Complete Machine Learning & Data Science: https://bit.ly/CompMachineLearning
– Junior to Senior Dev Roadmap: https://bit.ly/WebDevRoadmap-JrtoSr

🚩 Subscribe ➜ https://bit.ly/3nGHmNn

📬 Course Updates ➜ https://courses.davegray.codes/

❓ Questions – Please post them to my Discord ➜ https://discord.gg/neKghyefqh

☕ Buy Me A Coffee ➜ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/davegray

👇 Follow Me On Social Media:
Github: https://github.com/gitdagray
Twitter: https://twitter.com/yesdavidgray
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidagray/

🔗 Source Code: https://github.com/gitdagray/python-course

🔗 Playlist for this Python Course: https://bit.ly/dg-beginners-python

Python Virtual Environment and pip for Beginners

(00:00) Intro
(00:05) Welcome
(00:14) Getting Started
(00:33) Installing packages with pip
(02:19) pip list
(02:46) Installing a specific package version
(03:58) Upgrading a package with pip
(04:24) pip uninstall
(04:53) Why do we need virtual environments?
(05:54) Creating a virtual environment
(08:10) Comparing global & virtual environments
(09:30) Packages may install other required packages
(11:01) Python Package Index – PyPI
(11:31) Creating a requirements file
(12:34) .gitignore
(13:30) Weather project
(13:53) Get a login
(14:18) API Key and .env file
(16:18) Get the request URL
(18:25) Complete the Weather project

📚 Tutorial References:
🔗 Python Official Site: https://www.python.org/
🔗 Visual Studio Code Official Site: https://code.visualstudio.com/
🔗 Python Module Index: https://docs.python.org/3/py-modindex.html
🔗 Python Standard Library: https://docs.python.org/3/library/index.html
🔗 Python Package Index (PyPI): https://pypi.org/
🔗 OpenWeatherMap.org for Weather API

Was this Python tutorial about virtual environments and PIP helpful? If so, please share. Let me know your thoughts in the comments.

#python #venv #pip