Activating and deactivating the virtual environment works the same way as it does for virtual environments in Python 3 (see above). Note that Python 2 should not be used for any new development.

python -m venv myenv. You can use “myenv” or change it to whatever name you want for your virtual environment. Entering the prompt will create a folder in your project folder with the name of ...

Don’t place project files inside a Python virtual environment. When you set up a virtual environment, the directory it lives in isn’t meant to hold anything but the virtual environment itself.