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Use pyenv with a virtualenv

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Using pyenv with virtual environments

Installation:

On Mac: brew install pyenv-virtualenv

On Linux:

sudo apt-get install -y make build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev \
libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev llvm libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev xz-utils tk-dev
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pyenv/pyenv-installer/master/bin/pyenv-installer | bash

Creating a virtualenv:

First install the python version you want: pyenv install 3.8.1
Create a virtualenv pyenv virtualenv 3.8.1 <venv name>
pyenv activate <venv name>
pip install any requirements

Uninstalling old versions

pyenv uninstall <python version> and confirm each venv and version removal using y

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