Force virtualenv pip to be used
Chris Angelico
rosuav at gmail.com
Sun Nov 6 06:10:11 EST 2016
On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 9:17 PM, Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Running Ubuntu 16.10 with Python 2.7.12+ (default one) and virtualenv
> 15.0.3 (`sudo -H pip install virtualenv`). What am I doing wrong?
>
> $ virtualenv a && . "$_"/bin/activate && pip --version
I'm pretty sure virtualenv (like venv, about which I'm certain)
creates something that you have to 'source' into your shell, rather
than running in the classic way:
source env/bin/activate
It needs to alter environment variables in your shell, which can't be
done from a separate program.
ChrisA
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