Modern Python Projects Transcripts
Chapter: Course conclusion and review
Lecture: pyenv
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When you install a new operating system, it might come with some version of Python preinstalled, but quite often it's an old version.
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So, no matter if you have an old version of Python, or if you don't have any version of Python installed.
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I suggest that you installed pyenv and use it to manage Python versions on your computer. If you are on Windows,
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installed Python from Python.org website to get all the dependencies and then install
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pyenv-win with pyenv you can easily switch what version of Python you are currently using. You can change Python version globally locally,
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so for a specific folder and all the sub folders, or even for the current shell session. So it gives you a lot of flexibility.
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And if you mess up something, you can simply uninstall Pyenv and you will get back to whatever version of Python
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you had before. That's because pyenv doesn't touch the system Python that comes preinstalled on your operating system, but it installs everything in a seperate location.