14.5: Thonny-Virtual Environments
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Thonny makes it very easy to create virtual environments. Once you have created a virtual envrionment you can install packages from resources like the python package index. In this module we will show you how to create a virtual environment and install the google spreadsheet Python API gspread package. First, go to pypi.org and search for gspread, and you see that gspread 6.0.2 was last updated Feb 14, 2024.
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pip install gspread
But when you run it you get the following error message, which essentially says that you must set up a virtual environment (venv) if you want to install an externally managed package.
Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\): Copy and Paste Caption here. (Copyright; author via source)Creating a Virtual Environment
Create an empty folder - this will be the folder we use for assignment 8 the Google API: ASN8_API
Open Thonny and choose tools/options
Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\): Copy and Paste Caption here. (Copyright; author via source)Go to Interpreter and choose New virtual environment
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click OK, and it will create a virtual environment in that folder
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now by simply clicking the pyenv.cfg file you will open Thonny with the virtual enterpreter.
Go to Tools Manage Packages and you can search the PyPi package index from Thonny
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You now have a virtual environment with the gspread suite and all of its dependencies.
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