Install VirtualEnv in Ubuntu

Once virtualenv is installed, you have the power to create any number of small, self-contained “virtual Python environments” where packages can be installed,
un-installed, and experimented with without contaminating your system-wide Python. When a particular project or experiment is over, you simply remove its virtual environment directory, and your system is clean. In this case, we want to create a virtual environment in which to test the googlemaps package. If you
have never installed virtualenv on your system before, visit this URL to download and install it:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv

Once you have virtualenv installed, you can create a new environment like this (on Windows, the directory containing the Python binary in the virtual environment will be named “Scripts” instead):

$ virtualenv --no-site-packages gmapenv
$ cd gmapenv
$ ls
bin/ include/ lib/
$ . bin/activate
$ python -c 'import googlemaps'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named googlemaps

As you can see, the googlemaps package is not yet available! To install it, use the pip command that is inside your virtualenv and that is now on your path thanks to the activate command that you ran:

$ pip install googlemaps
Downloading/unpacking googlemaps
Downloading googlemaps-1.0.2.tar.gz (60Kb): 60Kb downloaded
Running setup.py egg_info for package googlemaps
Installing collected packages: googlemaps
Running setup.py install for googlemaps
Successfully installed googlemaps
Cleaning up...

The python binary inside the virtualenv will now have the googlemaps package available:

$ python -c 'import googlemaps'

Now that you have the googlemaps package installed, you should be able to run the simple program named search1.py.

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Fetching a Longitude and Latitudefrom googlemaps import GoogleMaps
address = '207 N. Defiance St, Archbold, OH'
print GoogleMaps().address_to_latlng(address)
Running it at the command line, you should see a result like this:
$ python search1.py

(41.5228242, -84.3063479)



Credits goes to Foundations of Python Network Programming(Apress)