App 4: Weather App with a Real API / Build the weather app
Lesson 2 of 10
Installing requests
requests is the most popular Python package for talking to websites. Make a virtual environment for the project and install it there.
Key points
- python3 -m venv venv
- source venv/bin/activate
- pip install requests
mkdir weather-app && cd weather-app
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install requestsYour turn
Set up the folder, venv and requests as shown.
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Why install packages inside a virtual environment?
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