What are Python virtual environments? A virtual environment is a way to have multiple, parallel instances of the Python interpreter, each with different sets of packages and different configurations.

Python Development Master taps new features in Python to manage a project’s packages without the overhead imposed by a virtual environment.

Some of the most popular packages harness “machine learning”, by crunching large quantities of data to pick out patterns that would otherwise be imperceptible.

Latest attack on PyPI users shows crooks are only getting better The code found in the malicious packages closely resembled legit offerings.