Using virtual environments in Visual Studio Code is a great practise while working on python. However, I had noticed that whenever I create a virtual environment, I had to reinstall the commonly used packages like numpy again in the virtual environment folder. The typical size of all such packages for a python program using Keras packages is nearly 500 MB.
Though this is a very good - and probably essential - practise for production environment, I did not want to use up a lot of unnecessary disk place in my study laptop's hard disk. After seraching on internet I could get some solutions to this problem like setting pythonPath variable in settings.json file under the project folder.
But I was curious and wanted to look for other possible options, and finally I found a setting in the pyenv.cfg file under the virtual environment folder. This file has a setting include-system-site-packages. Setting it to true results in the virtual environment automatically refering to global package library folder, like so
Though this is a very good - and probably essential - practise for production environment, I did not want to use up a lot of unnecessary disk place in my study laptop's hard disk. After seraching on internet I could get some solutions to this problem like setting pythonPath variable in settings.json file under the project folder.
But I was curious and wanted to look for other possible options, and finally I found a setting in the pyenv.cfg file under the virtual environment folder. This file has a setting include-system-site-packages. Setting it to true results in the virtual environment automatically refering to global package library folder, like so
home = C:\Program Files\Python36
include-system-site-packages = true
version = 3.6.8
