Virtual environments can be created using a package called virtualenv, by inputting the following in the command line:
```
$ python3 venv -m /path/to/new/env
```

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When working on python projects, using "virtual environments" allows for your project to be run using its own isolated python binary. The packages that this project uses also exist separately from the python packages installed locally on one's system. This allows for greater organization while working within projects.

Virtual Environments

Initializing a Virtual Environment with virtualenv

Pipenv is a tool that aims to "bring the best of all packaging worlds (bundler, composer, npm, cargo, yarn, etc.) to the Python world". Using pipenv eliminates the need for programmers to use pip and virtualenv individually, combining the functionality of both tools into one program to manage packages and virtual environments.

pipenv

A plugin is available for pyenv known as ```pyenv-virtualenv```, which allows one to manage their virtual environments through pyenv. What sets this method of managing virtual environments apart from others such as ```venv``` is that pyenv allows one to specify the version of python used for the virtual environment, whereas others will use whatever version is currently installed locally.

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