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To work in this repo, make sure you have a venv folder up and running in the root directory. If not, run:

virtualenv -p `which python3` venv

This will install a local python3 instance using the python3 you have installed.If

After that, always activate the virtual environment by entering the command (in the root directory):

source venv/bin/activate

You will see a (venv) prepended to your terminal input, denoting it is activated.activate

After that, everytime you install a module using pip, it will install it in the local venv instance.

IMPORTANT: If you are using the local venv Python instance, you use it using python ... NOT python3 ... because now the Python version inside the venv instance is bound to the alias python which is the version it was installed as (in our case 3.6.5). Same thing goes for pip, you use it as pip inside the activated venv and not pip3 (how you would normally if using your system wide install).

To install the required packages inside your requirements.txt, simply run (once):

pip install -r requirements.txt

And that's it!

Whenever you need to come back and work on your project, to activate venv and start Togepi, simply write in terminal:

source start.sh

To easily work on your Python project locally and not having to replace the tokens all the time, you could use a module that takes care of that for you. This is what the .env file does. Make sure never to push that onto GitHub (make sure it's in your .gitignore along with the venv folder cause you don't want to push that).