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

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 1:42 AM Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer <arj.python@gmail.com> wrote:

Greetings list,

put simply,

be able to use

$ python -m venv venv_name activate

To activate an env instead of having each platform have a way of handling it

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