Creating the Project Egg Before getting started we should setup a virtualenv in order to isolate our web application from our system Python environment. Note: all examples were developed on Ubuntu 10.10 using the bash shell $ cd ~/dev $ wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-1.5.1.tar.gz $ tar zxf virtualenv-1.5.1.tar.gz $ python2.7 virtualenv-1.5.1/virtualenv.py notes