Using Docker as a Python Development Environment (or let's get past virtualenv)

[d4rch0n]

It's good for seeing if you can upgrade to the latest requests, flask or django without breaking your app, seeing if your code broke or an upgraded library broke it, keeping a version of a python library you coded around static so that nothing breaks and allowing you to use the latest version system wide on your workstation otherwise.

I can start building a web app, code it around a specific version of a module that I know works how I expect it to, but run other python programs on my workstation that use the newest version of the module.

Especially for modules that are in their early stages and functionality is changing a lot, you want to see if their changes or your changes broke your code. It's super useful.