[Distutils] Need help with a usecase

Éric Araujo merwok at netwok.org
Tue Apr 19 18:18:12 CEST 2011


 Le 19/04/2011 18:05, Jim Fulton a écrit :
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Carl Meyer <carl at oddbird.net> 
> wrote:
>> Activation is a shell convenience that is entirely unnecessary to 
>> the
>> operation of virtualenv. All it does is put the virtualenv's bin/
>> directory first on your $PATH, so its scripts will take priority 
>> over
>> globally-installed scripts.
>
> That's cool. I wish I'd known that. :)

 Carl’s PyCon 2011 talk explains it:
 http://pycon.blip.tv/file/4881525/
 Reverse-engineering Ian Bicking's brain: inside pip and virtualenv

 Regards


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