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 ## Python prep
 
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-1. Check out the code. Build it and install it in your working environment.
-  1. If you have the `build` package for python, you can run `pyproject-build`
-  2. Alternatively you can run `pip install -r requirements.txt`
-  3. Assuming your current working directory is the root of this repository, install into your build environment with `pip install -e .`
+1. Check out the code. cd to the repository. Build it and install it in your working environment.
+    1. `python3 -m venv .venv`
+    2. Run `pyproject-build`
+    3. Assuming your current working directory is the root of this repository, install into your build environment with `pip install -e .`
 2. Copy the `example.env` file to a file named `.env` in the root of this repo.
 3. Edit that `.env` file to contain all the secrets!