How to delete a Python Virtual Environment

If you want to delete a Python Virtual Environment in a proper way, then follow the below steps.

Step 1: deactivate the Virtual Environment

Make sure that the venv than you want to delete is not active. If it is, you can deactivate it as follows,

Move to the bin folder:

cd /Users/c2ctech/Desktop/virtualenv/bin

Run the deactivate command:

(virtualenv) Code2care@Mac % deactivate

Step 2: Delete the Virtual Environment Directory

Once we deactivate the virtual environment, we are good to delete the directory once sure that it is no longer needed.

macOS/Linux/Bash:

rm -r ~/Desktop/virtualenv 

Windows:

rmdir /s /q C:\data\python\virtualenv



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