Due to supply-chain attacks, for your cybersecurity, I strongly encourage everyone to use a container for each project for development purposes. I do this using

Due to supply-chain attacks, for your cybersecurity, I strongly encourage everyone to use a container for each project for development purposes. I do this using devcontainer.json in VSCode which is free. PyCharm too offers devcontainer integration but not for free, so I moved away from PyCharm. You can alternatively use a plain docker container if your IDE integrates with it, but devcontainer is more suited for this purpose. All this is assuming that you don't use a web IDE which already offers project isolation.