The backend for ez.chat, built with CherryPy.
This setup assumes pip is available and redirects to pip for Python 3, also assumes python3 is in PATH and you have both Python 3 and pip (generally included with former) installed.
NOTE: If you have Python 3.3+, a module named venv is already provided with Python. You may skip installing virtualenv and proceed further.
(This assumes virtualenv is not already available in your Linux package repos. If so, then follow distribution specific installation methods.) To install virtualenv, run pip install virtualenv and confirm the installation with python3 -m virtualenv --version.
To setup a virtual environment, run python3 -m virtualenv venv (if using venv, run python3 -m venv venv) in the project directory.
Once done, run \venv\Scripts\activate in the command line to activate the virtual environment on Windows, or source venv/bin/activate on Linux. This will replace your python and pip executables for the current terminal with PATH and allow you to use these executables directly. When finished working, type deactivate on either platform to deactivate the environment (or close the terminal).
To install the necessary packages (CherryPy, Flake8 and pylint), run pip install -r requirements.txt and to save dependencies after installing a package, run pip freeze > requirements.txt.
VSCode and PyCharm will automatically detect the virtual environment and use packages inside the venv (requires the Python extension on VSCode). Both support debugging on this project as well. VSCode is further configured to properly lint code with Flake8 and pylint (PyCharm uses built-in linters). On Windows and VSCode, you may need to change the Flake8 path in .vscode/settings.json.