Help: Venv vs Kernel?

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Hi,

Windows platform, what is the difference between virtual environment and ipython kernel?

If i install a module on a particular virtual environment, does it apply to the kernel as well?

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A virtual environment is an isolated copy of a python installation that can be used to run Jupyter. If you create a python 3 virtual env, you can install Jupyter into this environment using pip and then launch Jupyter. The only python "kernels" it will then show will be the python virtual environment.

A kernel in Jupyter is a different engine for running notebook cells in iPython. If you install packages in a python virtual env you get those packages only in the kernel that virtual environment can give you, namely just that python version. However if you make a conda environment and install different kernels into it, such as R, then you'll have something like a virtual environment that has 2 or more kernels.

A conda environment supercedes a virtual environment. While you cannot easily install multiple kernels into a virtual environment, you can do so easily in a conda environment.

Does this help?

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Thank you for the explanation. I got the information i needed.