[Python-ideas] Re: Add venv activate command to the venv modules

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 2:29 AM Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer <arj.python@gmail.com> wrote:

Unfortunately, that wouldn't work. Activating a virtual environment means setting some env vars in the current shell, and Python is fundamentally unable to do that - it can only be done within the shell itself (by sourcing a script).

You can, of course, simply run the Python executable from that venv, but activation is *by its nature* a shell feature, and will differ by shell.

ChrisA

It's somewhat easy

def activate_on_linux(): sys.subprocess([sys.executable, ...])

Not sure what this means. Can you elaborate? Also, "Linux" or "Windows" isn't really the thing. It needs to care about the shell, not the operating system. ChrisA