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This is Day 1 of the #100DaysOfPython challenge.

With 2021 now in the latter half, I decided to rekindle my love for Python and do a recap and deep dive into the language as my coding project for the latter half of the year.

The posts will be relatively short, but my aim is to use JupyterLab where possible to help write out easy-to-follow notebooks for myself in the future.

This tutorial will make use of Pipenv to handle package management and we will set up a basic example of a Python 3 notebook that will demonstrate usage of another local package requests that we will install.

Prerequisites

Pipenv is required to be installed locally to work through this tutorial.

If you are not familiar with Pipenv, I have another post “The ABCs of Pipenv and Python Package Management” that may aid in the fundamentals.

Setting up

To setup, run the following from the command-line: