venv — Creation of virtual environments — Python 3.14.3 documentation
1 day ago · A virtual environment is created on top of an existing Python installation, known as the virtual environment’s “base” Python, and by default is isolated from the packages in the base …
12. Virtual Environments and Packages — Python 3.14.3 documentation
2 days ago · The solution for this problem is to create a virtual environment, a self-contained directory tree that contains a Python installation for a particular version of Python, plus a number of additional …
Python Setup and Usage — Python 3.14.3 documentation
2 days ago · This part of the documentation is devoted to general information on the setup of the Python environment on different platforms, the invocation of the interpreter and things that make working …
1. Command line and environment — Python 3.14.3 documentation
These environment variables influence Python’s behavior, they are processed before the command-line switches other than -E or -I. It is customary that command-line switches override environmental …
4. Using Python on Windows — Python 3.14.3 documentation
2 days ago · The recommended command for launching Python is python, which will either launch the version requested by the script being launched, an active virtual environment, or the default installed …
The initialization of the sys.path module search path — Python 3.14.3 ...
2 days ago · The PYTHONPATH environment variable is often used to add directories to the search path. If this environment variable is found then the contents are added to the module search path.
2. Using the Python Interpreter — Python 3.14.3 documentation
1 day ago · On Unix, the Python 3.x interpreter is by default not installed with the executable named python, so that it does not conflict with a simultaneously installed Python 2.x executable.
6. Modules — Python 3.14.3 documentation
2 days ago · To speed up loading modules, Python caches the compiled version of each module in the __pycache__ directory under the name module.version.pyc, where the version encodes the format of …
2. Using Python on Unix platforms — Python 3.14.3 documentation
2 days ago · However, some Unices may not have the env command, so you may need to hardcode /usr/bin/python3 as the interpreter path. To use shell commands in your Python scripts, look at the …
IDLE — Python editor and shell — Python 3.14.3 documentation
2 days ago · Files referenced by these environment variables are convenient places to store functions that are used frequently from the IDLE shell, or for executing import statements to import common …