[GH-ISSUE #981] Documentation for Contributing.md - Starting Virtual Environment Command Line Not Working #587

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opened 2026-02-27 23:23:30 +03:00 by kerem · 0 comments

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Originally created by @andychen3 on GitHub (Jun 3, 2023).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/spotipy-dev/spotipy/issues/981

Hi,

I noticed that the instructions on starting a virtual environment is not working and is different from what is shown in the youtube videos that were created to illustrate the set up process. Specifically this line of code:

$ virtualenv --python=python3 env

This code gives me an error when I run it in my terminal and a workaround was to use this command.

python3 -m venv env

Originally created by @andychen3 on GitHub (Jun 3, 2023). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/spotipy-dev/spotipy/issues/981 Hi, I noticed that the instructions on starting a virtual environment is not working and is different from what is shown in the youtube videos that were created to illustrate the set up process. Specifically this line of code: $ virtualenv --python=python3 env This code gives me an error when I run it in my terminal and a workaround was to use this command. python3 -m venv env