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1) python3 -m venv venvname

2) source venvname/bin/activate

then you do everything in the virtual environment...

And then what’s the packaging/distribution story to run it everywhere else?

Poetry

Do beginners really need to delve into the finer details of all that?

I mean, yeah. Using the software you wrote on other machines is a big part of the software development experience.