Creating & maintaining a stable local Python development environment has often felt like more trouble than it ought to be, especially when you haven’t created one in a while but need to. The main goals/challenges of creating one are: Installing the desired version of Python with the least amount of trouble. Installing any necessary Python […]
Tag: pipenv
Using the Starship Prompt in pipenv Virtual Environment on Mac OSX
While attending PyCon 2021 online, I learned about Starship prompt & was impressed. It isn’t all that impressive when you are just navigating the file system, but as soon as you enter a project directory…that is when it springs to life. There is some magic that looks at the files & suddenly will tell you […]
Upgrading Python in an Existing pipenv Virtual Environment
While I have a love-hate relationship with pipenv–make no mistake, it’s definitely more love than hate–the things that I hate seem to be more due to a lack of (quality) documentation than a lack of anything else. A simple example is upgrading the version of python running in an existing virtual environment. My “google-fu” was […]