From 091e3aaf662f04d5073ea502b896607f79d306ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lance <lance@lzatech.us>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 00:10:04 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] adding block about installing deps to venv

---
 docs/source/quickstart.rst | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/source/quickstart.rst b/docs/source/quickstart.rst
index 99a9123..fa959f4 100644
--- a/docs/source/quickstart.rst
+++ b/docs/source/quickstart.rst
@@ -56,7 +56,23 @@ a JSON RPC interface. Start it by typing:
 
     $ monero-wallet-rpc --testnet --wallet-file testwallet --password "" --rpc-bind-port 28088 --disable-rpc-login
 
-Now everything is ready to start using Python.
+Now you're almost ready to start using Python.
+
+Install Dependencies
+---------------------
+
+Before you can use the library, you first must download the Python library dependencies with ``pip``. It is recommended to use a `virtual environment`_ to isolate library versions. Assuming you have ``virtualenv`` installed to your system, set up a new env, activate it, and install the dependencies.
+
+.. _`virtual environment`: https://averlytics.com/2017/08/06/virtual-environment-a-python-best-practice/
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+    $ virtualenv .venv
+    $ source .venv/bin/activate
+    $ pip install -r requirements.txt
+    $ python
+
+Now you can proceed.
 
 Connect to the wallet
 ---------------------

From 4a95828d99a5a8aee96592de0fd3744670bd7461 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lance <lance@lzatech.us>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 00:10:44 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] adding venv dirs to gitignore

---
 .gitignore | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e54dfd8..63d71f5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,3 +5,5 @@
 *.bak
 *.swp
 docs/build/*
+.venv
+venv