@Tom Welsh okay thanks for your response! And so you're saying pip isnt an environment, but more like a package manager? What about pipenv?

@Diane Corriette Thanks, that sounds easy and super helpful, I'll try that lol So once the folder and environment have been created, and activated, and you open it in VSCode, is there anything else you need to do in VSCode? Like do you need to use that drop down menu and select the virtual environment or anything like that? Or is all that already handled?

@Abhishek Kumar Singh Yes, the book directory contains a sample odyssey.txt file. It seems to know where the directory is, but for some reason it isnt creating anything inside of the db folder. And thanks for your response