On Dec 22, 2016, at 11:15 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:

On 22 December 2016 at 09:08, Chris Barker <chris.barker@noaa.gov> wrote:

And there are utilities that let you run a script in a given environment:

https://github.com/pelson/conda-execute

(and maybe others)

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pipsi (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.