Why use virtual environments?

Virtual environments allow you

to manage project dependencies in an isolated manner.
You can have a project that uses Django 1.0 and
another project that uses Django 2.0. The former
project uses Python 2 and the latter Python 3.
With virtual environments they don’t interfere which each other.
Updates may introduce changes that break your application. Maybe
your favourite package doesn’t support the new release
or your own custom code is not ready for the upgrade.
But at the same time you might want to start another project
using the new Django release. This is where virtual
environments come in handy. Keeping all project packages
in one place also makes it easier to deploy. We can
generate a requirements list and use it to install the
dependencies on another environment.