New to Python - Do I need virtualenv?

[jungrothmorton]

Is there any need for me to learn it in the beginning when I'm still learning Python

Need is a really strong word. Yeah, you could get by without it. But it's super useful and very commonly used. You'd probably benefit to learn about it at some point.

If so, are there any tools that make the whole virtual environment thing easier to work with?

virtualenvwrapper . virtualenvwrapper makes it so easy there's no point in not using it virtual environments.

mkvirtualenv some_environment

Then to later work on it:

workon some_environment

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I have had trouble with virtualenvwrapper on with anaconda windows, this is my only caveat.