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Python Setting Up a Local Python Environment Installing Python and Python Libraries Locally Using virtualenv

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Setting up two virtual environments with two different versions of python (MAC)

I have followed the steps in this video, and the virtual environment with python 3.X (the latest version on the website is installed). I'm trying to setup another virtual environment with python 2.7. How would I go about doing this? Can someone please give me step by step instructions?

Thanks!

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Kenneth Love
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Kenneth Love
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Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

When you create the virtualenv, you can pass in the --python argument which points to the Python interpreter you want to use.

For example, if you have Python 2 installed as /usr/bin/python, you should be able to do virtualenv py2_venv --python=/usr/bin/python.