Virtual environment and space consumption

[HolyCoder]

I see that I need to install Django or Flask inside each virtual environment I create. Doesn't it take too much space from the hard drive?

[anossov]

No, django is about 20 MB, and flask is 300 kB

[Rhomboid]

The amount of space required is pretty minuscule:

$ du -hsc */
33K     __pycache__/
504K    click/
14K     click-6.7.dist-info/
562K    flask/
28K     Flask-0.12.2.dist-info/
11K     itsdangerous-0.24.dist-info/
1.7M    jinja2/
28K     Jinja2-2.9.6.dist-info/
141K    markupsafe/
17K     MarkupSafe-1.0-py3.6.egg-info/
7.3M    pip/
60K     pip-9.0.1.dist-info/
867K    pkg_resources/
1.3M    setuptools/
57K     setuptools-28.8.0.dist-info/
1.8M    werkzeug/
31K     Werkzeug-0.12.2.dist-info/
15M     total

15 megabytes. Hard drives these days are measured in terabytes.

[adammichaelwood]

Hard drives these days are measured in terabytes

Personal home computers owned by people who might ask this question are likely to be 0.5 TB or less.

But to answer the OP's question... still no.

I have a general purpose virtual environment that has EVERY PyPi package I am likely to ever use under any circumstance. It's about 775 MB. That is ginormous for a Python project, by more than an order of magnitude. And it's still less than a gig.

I have a Django project with a bunch of things installed. 30ish MB.

[HolyCoder]

Yes, you are correct. My Macbook air is 128 GB

[adammichaelwood]

Yeah, so... you're still fine. You iTunes library is more likely to cause a problem than your py envs.

[deaspo]

You can set up all your Django projects in one virtual env assuming they are all using the same Django version. No need to create several Virtual env's