Data Science Best Practices: Python Environments

Jerry Yu
Towards Data Science
4 min readOct 21, 2019

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What are Python Virtual Environments?

Virtual environments are isolated coding spaces where Python packages can be installed, upgraded, and used, instead of packages being installed globally in your working environment. Virtual environments can be installed with a .txt or .yml file, that lists the package names and their versions, through the…

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