Gen-AI Developer Classroom notes 06/Mar/2025

Virtual environment

Assumption:

• We are asked to work on a fastapi project to run the ml models.
• This project requires fast api, pytorch and hugging face
• What we would acheive
  • creating virtual environment
  • writing a python module
  • creating a jupyter notebook with virtual environment

Steps

• Create a new folder
• Now execute the following command

# Create a virtual environment and store everything in .venv
python -m venv .venv

• Now activate the virtual environment
  • Windows .\.venv\Scripts\activate
    
  • Mac or linux source .venv/bin/activate
• Now install dependencies fastapi Refer Here

pip install "fastapi[standard]"

• To make it easier to list out dependencies we list all of them in a file called as requirements.txt

pip freeze > requirements.txt