A wise man once said ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’. But I think the real mother of invention is laziness. If you are lazy enough, you will find an easier way to do a particular thing. In order to solve large problems elegantly, we need to use tools that solve smaller sub-problems very well. To the coder in you, yes, it’s a bit like dynamic programming! If you have fiddled with Python, you would have definitely come across many different libraries and packages. Sometimes, you wish that you had different machines for different libraries because the requirements differ from one thing to another. There should be an easier way to manage different environments and packages right?   Continue reading “Essential Python Tools: virtualenv and pip” →