Rahul gives unsolicited advice

Last weekend, I gave a brief talk on Virtual Environments in Python at the April meet of the PythonPune meetup group . Yesterday, I conducted a workshop on the same topic at the May meet of the PyLadies meetup group . The slides can be found on a GitHub repository . The GitHub repo also contains slides for most other talks/workshops I gave/conducted. To give you a brief overview of the slides, I introduce what a Virtual Environment are, why we should use them and finally, how we go about using them. Along with Virtual Environments, I also introduce environment managers such as conda and edm and talk about how the environments created by them differ from virtual environments. Neither virtual environments not environment managers help understand the Python language better but they are crucial to using Python in enterprise/open-source projects. A large number of open source Python libraries suggest the use of virtual environments if you are interested in contributing.

Yesterday, I conducted a workshop on Python Packages at the May meet of the PyLadies meetup group . Slides I used for the workshop can be found on the GitHub repository . The GitHub repository also contains slides I used for other talks/workshops I gave/conducted. To give you a brief overview of the workshop, I first introduced what a Python package is, why we should use them and finally, how to go about creating a Python package. Python packages make distribution and installation of your work easy, crucial to get others to use your work. Two references I highly recommend are the sample project published by PyPA and the Packaging User Guide, also published by PyPA .