I've now completed a full year working as software engineer in the News Labs team at the BBC. It's been an odd year, obviously, but we've been cracking on with all kinds of projects – finding new ways to help journalists do their jobs; innovating around user experiences in news products and...
For some time, Python has had support for managing virtual environments. Python 3.3 even added the built-in module venv for creating environments without third-party libraries. There are a number of different tools Python programmers use to manage their environments and the one I use is...