# How we set up our computers for working on dbt projects

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**Created:** [February 15, 2019, 5:02pm UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/how-we-set-up-our-computers-for-working-on-dbt-projects/243 "2019-02-15T17:02:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 12:27am UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/how-we-set-up-our-computers-for-working-on-dbt-projects/243/18 "2021-02-25T00:27:45Z")

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Also want to add the for VSCode folks who use anaconda environments or virtual environments to contain the dbt package, a long-awaited update to the VSCode Python extension is coming next month. Now the Python extension will auto activate along with your chosen python environment. You just need to have a requirements.txt in the repo.

> <https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/issues/4765#issuecomment-785242341>
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> Goal - Lets not wait for the user to open a python file to activate the extension
> If the user has some...

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