The two functions (akt and mkvin) in this gist allow for a quick way to create end activate python's virtual environments

mkvin will create a new virtual environment in $HOME/virtualenvironments directory with the name of the directory you're in.

For example:

[mikhail@MadRussian git]$ mkdir projectzero
[mikhail@MadRussian git]$ cd projectzero
[mikhail@MadRussian projectzero]$ mkvin
New python executable in /Users/mikhail/virtualenvironments/projectzero/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done.
(projectzero)[mikhail@MadRussian projectzero]$

akt will activate your local virtual environment. Either activating the conventional .venv directory, or if it is not found then searching for the one created via mkvin