# How to Create Python Environment for your WIP - EP Workbench

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# EP Workbench: How to Create Python Environment for your WIP

> Note: WIPs run python code in the background and therefore require setting up a Conda environment.

- WIPs (Work-in-Progress) are small plugins that can run code from within EP Workbench.
- You can install a WIP (using the WIP Marketplace) or you can create your own WIP.

## Setting up the Python Interpreter (Conda Environment)

1. Download the requirements.txt file from the WIP repository, for example: [requirements.txt](https://github.com/ep-workbench-wips/SIM-ANALYSIS-action-potential-trace/blob/main/requirements.txt)

2. Open a terminal:  
a. Create a new environment: `conda create -n wip python=3.11`  
b. Activate the environment: `conda activate wip`  
c. Install the requirements.txt file from above by typing: `cd /path/to/your/folder` and then `pip install -r requirements.txt`

3. You also require [openep installation](https://github.com/ecci-cvs/openep-py). On your terminal do the following:  
a. Go to project location folder (wherever you’d like to install the software): `cd /path/to/your/folder`  
b.`git clone https://github.com/openep/openep-py.git`  
c. `cd openep-py`  
d. Go to the latest branch (usually `ecci-dev`); `git checkout ecci-dev`  
e. `python3 -m pip install -e .`

4. Finally, make sure to set the interpreter path on EP Workbench `EP Workbench > WIP tab > Select WIP > Info > Edit` and then set the python file path (`../wip/bin/python3.11`). See below for example path.

> Note: You can type `where conda` from within the environment to see where the environment path is.

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\*\* if you are part of ecci-dev please use : `https://github.com/ecci-cvs/openep-py`