<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 22, 2016, at 11:15 PM, Nick Coghlan <<a href="mailto:ncoghlan@gmail.com" class="">ncoghlan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 December 2016 at 09:08, Chris Barker <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:chris.barker@noaa.gov" target="_blank" class="">chris.barker@noaa.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail-"></span><div class="">And there are utilities that let you run a script in a given environment:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/pelson/conda-execute" target="_blank" class="">https://github.com/pelson/<wbr class="">conda-execute</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(and maybe others)</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pipsi" class="">https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pipsi</a> (pip Script Installer) creates a dedicated venv for the module and its dependencies, and then adds symlinks from ~/.local/bin to any scripts installed into the venv's bin directory. As Armin notes in the README, it's a really nice way to handle utilities that happen to be written in Python and published via PyPI, without having them impact any other aspect of your system.<br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">I just wanted to echo that this is a great tool, and it teaches really good habits (i.e. don't install your general-purpose python tools into project-specific virtual environments).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-glyph</div></body></html>