create a virtual environment in visual studio - python-3.x

I would like to create (using visual studio) a specific folder which contains the packages of the relative python project.
Now, i now that if i want to create a virtual environment i have to write those lines on the terminal:
py -3 -m venv .venv //where i specify the name of the virtual env
.venv\scripts\activate
and then i start to write the names of the packages to download.
the problem is that the folder is created on the desktop but i want to create it somewhere else.
How can i change the folder path?

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Python pip packages on local files, not in venv

I have a device with Python 3.7 pre-installed, without any pip package.
I created the program on my local machine with some packages in my venv (I have a requirements.txt file) and it works perfectly.
My problem is that now I want to create a directory with my programs and upload it to my device. This doesn't work because I don't have additional packages installed.
My question: Is there a way to export the installed package to a directory in my program files and import it locally and not from venv?
Copy the all the venv modules to some directory and modify PYTHONPATH variable when running your program, append your modules directory path to it.
man python3
PYTHONPATH
Augments the default search path for module files. The format is the same as the shell's $PATH: one or more directory
pathnames separated by colons. Non-existent directories are silently ignored. The default search path is installation
dependent, but generally begins with ${prefix}/lib/python<version> (see PYTHONHOME above). The default search path is al‐
ways appended to $PYTHONPATH. If a script argument is given, the directory containing the script is inserted in the path
in front of $PYTHONPATH. The search path can be manipulated from within a Python program as the variable sys.path.
In general, you have the following options to run a python script on another device than the one you developed the script on:
Generate an executable (for example with the package pyinstaller). With that solution, it is not required to have python installed on your device, as everything is embedded in the executable
If you have python installed on the device (like your case), you can just run it on it. However, if you have dependency (from PyPi or Conda), you must also install them on your device
If you have access to internet and have your requirements.txt file, you can just run pip install -r requirements.txt
If you don't have access to internet, you can either:
download the wheel for each package and then ship it to your device
just ship to your device the contents of the folders lib and lib64 of your virtual environnement folder .venv of your local machine (I hope you are using one python -m venv .venv) into the virtual environment of your device

How to remove false directory created in my project folder when using Python virtual environment in Windows?

Every time I create a Python virtual environment it creates a 'false' directory in my project directory. what is it for? Its messing my contribution to open source. How can I get rid of it?

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By error, I forgot to specify the WORKON_HOME variable before creating my virtual environments, and they were created in /root/.virtualenvs directory. They worked fine, and I did some testing by activating certain environment and then doing (env)$ pip freeze to see what specific modules are installed there.
So, whe I discovered the workon home path error, I needed to change the host directory to /usr/local/pythonenv. I created it and moved all the contents of /root/.virtualenvs directory to /usr/local/pythonenv, and changed the value of WORKON_HOME variable. Now, activating an environment using workon command seems to work fine (ie, the promt changes to (env)$), however if I do (env)$ pip freeze, I get way longer list of modules than before and those do not include the ones installed in that particular env before the move.
I guess that just moving the files and specifying another dir for WORKON_HOME variable was not enough. Is there some config where I should specify the new location of the host directory, or some config files for the particular environment?
Virtualenvs are not by default relocatable. You can use virtualenv --relocatable <virtualenv> to turn an existing virtualenv into a relocatable one, and see if that works. But that option is experimental and not really recommended for use.
The most reliable way is to create new virtualenvs. Use pip freeze -l > requirements.txt in the old ones to get a list of installed packages, create the new virtualenv, and use pip install -r requirements.txt to install the packages in the new one.
I used the virtualenv --relocatable feature. It seemed to work but then I found a different python version installed:
$ . VirtualEnvs/moslog/bin/activate
(moslog)$ ~/VirtualEnvs/moslog/bin/mosloganalisys.py
python: error while loading shared libraries: libpython2.7.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Remember to recreate the same virtualenv tree on the destination host.

How to copy Pyramid project?

How can I copy Pyramid project to another computer? I was following Pyramid's tutorial SQLAlchemy + URL dispatch and finished first four chapters. I wasn't home so I copied directory with my project to my laptop to be able to go through it. I opened directory with VSCode, it automatically opened virtual environment that was installed (with python3 -m venv env). I tried few commands but got error:
bash: env/bin/pip: /home/user/path/to/project/env/bin/python3.5: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
This got me thinking, how am I supposed to copy my project to another machine? Obviously, simple copying of directory doesn't work (because of virtual environment).
Virtual environments are not relocatable. Recreate your virtual environment from scratch.

How to install node.js in a custom directory through powershell?

I am making a script to install NodeJS on several machines through PowerShell.
By default NodeJS gets installed in C:\Program Files\nodejs folder. Can I define a custom directory for the installation?
I am running this command:
msiexec.exe /i $nodejs_download_filename /L*V "logger.log" /passive | out-null
Is there any argument to add to this line in order to specify the target directory instead of the default one?
You can refer this
Install Node.js on a different hard drive from C to D
You can move the node.exe to the d drive. Then check your environment path.
Type set in a command window or in computer properties.
Make sure you have the folder that contains node.exe in your path.
Running node in a command window will work from any folder then.
For installed npm packages, ie.. node_modules folder..
That just needs to be in a directory above where your writing your code, so try putting that folder in d:\ Assuming your going to be writing your apps on the d drive now.
In .npmrc file, change prefix setting to desired folder. Global packages get installed in node_modules under that folder.

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