The time I almost broke my Python setup with pip install—what I want to tell my past self who spent six months without knowing about virtual environments

Last week, I had a minor but quietly painful accident. I ran pip install for a new library for Assignment A, and suddenly, the code for Assignment B, which I had finished weeks ago, stopped working.
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Air-gapped Python: Setting up Python without a net(work)

Installing Python and related applications on a system without a network connection isn’t easy, but you can do it. Here’s how. The vast majority of modern software development revolves around one big ...