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One of main features and troubles for Django projects is the Django version you are using. Example for this would be the occasion of starting project for Django 1.4.x version. Trying to run it under Django 1.7.x would lead to various troubles, counting template changes, misconfiguration errors and so on. Solution is to use virtual environment. The tool for this is called Virtualenv . It is a wrapper for a python interpreter. It enables you to have multiple versions of python packages that run independently. The Virtualenv creates you a standalone environment. Basically it copies and keeps a system Python of yours in a specified directory. All the python packages will be installed there. (In case you have not forgot to activate it first, of course) Lets get started then. We need Virtualenv itself for the first. There are many ways to install it depending on your system . Most obvious to use pip. Your installation command will look something like that: pip install virtualenv Thi...

In most common cases of programming Django with Eclipse are that Django is installed in system, like Python. I dislike this method, because it makes confusions for beginners. What Django version I'm in. Why did I download an app "X" and added an Eclipse project. Everything seems to be fine, but I cant install proper dependencies... So it's not a secret. Managing Django distributions is a hard work for junior developer. Let's try to make their work simpler, by this article. I'll try to show you the right way to install Django environment on Eclipse. 1. First of all let's install Eclipse from official site . I chose "Eclipse IDE for JavaScript Web Developers". Mac 32bit version, because I'm using this OS type. Any other distributive will work just fine, I think. 2. Unpack downloaded archive into some dir. It will be installation directory of the eclipse. Usually it doesn't mater where it is stored. So I used "/Users/garmoncheg/De...

Let's talk about common programming practice. You love to code yourself. Everyday you write tons of code. Making lots of common tasks is interesting and challenging. No? A-ha! You love plugins too! :) I'm making a startup. Everyday there are some ideas coming to my head. Some are easy to implement, some are not, but I often download tons of plugins. There are lots of ways to use plugins without installing them to main system. Python virtualenv is easy and common to use for this purposes. Soon I'll write an article about it too. But the main problem of Python Virtualenv is it's complexity. You basically need to install something, make an environment and so on... What if you just need to implement nice and easy "Django way". Here direct copy comes in mind. It's the easiest way, as for me. Basic concept is:    - download plugin (be it in egg, zip, tar.gz or any other format)    - unpack it     - copy to django app dir ...