Shameless plug ahead I may need to write up something on the subject, but you can use envbuilder[1] to simplify working with the pip and virtualenv part. This

Shameless plug ahead I may need to write up something on the subject, but you can use envbuilder[1] to simplify working with the pip and virtualenv part. This works especially well if you have several chunks of code you need to check out from VCS. [1] http://github.com/jasonbaker/envbuilder http://github.com/jasonbaker/envbuilder