I have been messing around with Python these last few weeks. Playing with Python means installing a lot of packages. I did this without using virtualenv
, so my default Python environment had a lot of packages installed globally.
I now have a couple of projects that I want to work on and I what each project to have its own clean environment. That means using virtualenv
. When running virtualenv
without with the option --no-site-packages
all the packages that are installed globally are included in the virtualenv
.
I wanted to remove all the global packages to have a clean default environment. I did this by running the following command.
Windows
pip freeze > remove.txt && pip uninstall -y -r remove.txt && del remove.txt
Linux
pip freeze > remove.txt && pip uninstall -y -r remove.txt && rm remove.txt
After cleaning up the default envrionment by removing all the global packages don’t forget to install virtualenv
en virtualenvwrapper-win
by running the following command.
pip install virtualenvwrapper-win
For quick instructions of the main commands please check out virtualenvwrapper-win
Github page.