virtual_env.md

OSX/Linux Virtual Environment Setup (Python)

Setting up a virtual environment & installing requirements.txt packages

We highly recommend setting up a virtual environment before running the run_tester_python.py script.

The main purpose of a Python virtual environment is to create an isolated environment for Python projects. You can find more infomation here.

Run the following commands from within the python directory to setup a Python virtual environment:

install virtualenv

$ python3 -m pip install --user virtualenv

creating a virtual environment

$ python3 -m venv env

activating a virtual environment

$ source env/bin/activate

install packages from requirements.txt

$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt