Force virtualenv pip to be used
Peter Otten
__peter__ at web.de
Sun Nov 6 06:19:27 EST 2016
Chris Angelico wrote:
> 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 && . "$_"/bin/activate && pip --version
>
> I'm pretty sure virtualenv (like venv, about which I'm certain)
> creates something that you have to 'source' into your shell, rather
> than running in the classic way:
>
> source env/bin/activate
I think this is what the
. "$_"/bin/activate
part of Alec's command is supposed to do.
Yes, that's a dot, not grit on Tim's screen ;)
> It needs to alter environment variables in your shell, which can't be
> done from a separate program.
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