[Pythonmac-SIG] Lanchd + virtualenv

[Orestis Markou]

On 25 Σεπ 2009, at 6:31 μ.μ., gabriel.rossetti at arimaz.com wrote:

> How about running the python exec directly from the virtual env :
>
> and again it seams to work (correct me again if I messed up  
> somewhere).
>
> What is the advantage of using your method?

None in particular, apart from the fact that a python script can be  
more flexible in deciding whether to activate a virtualenv or not, or  
even which virtualenv. If you are certain that the virtualenv will  
always be at the same place, then hardcoding it into the .plist is fine.

In my case, this snippet appears in a pyobjc app, where I don't have a  
lot of control on which python is used (it's complicated).

Orestis

>
> Gabriel
>
>
> On Fri 25/09/09 17:01 , "Orestis Markou" orestis at orestis.gr sent:
> No need for a wrapper script. In recent versions of virtualenv, you
> can do this:
>
> activate_this = 'path/to/virtualenv/bin/activate_this.py'
> if os.path.exists(activate_this):
> execfile(activate_this, dict(__file__=activate_this))
>
> On 25 Σεπ 2009, at 3:56 μ.μ., Gabriel Rossetti wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I would like to create a Launchd plist entry to start a virtualenv
> > and run a python project. I created my plist, but I'm not sure how
> > to get it to activate the virtualenv and run the program. I thought
> > that maybe I could create two emtries :
> >
> >
> >
> > "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd%26quot%3B 
> %26gt">http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">;
> >
> >
> > Label
> > com.example.virtualenv
> > Program
> > source
> > ProgramArguments
> >
> > /path/to/myvirtualenv/bin/activate
> >
> > RunAtLoad
> >
> >
> >
> > Label
> > com.example.app
> > Program
> > python
> > ProgramArguments
> >
> > /path/to/myproj/launcher.py
> > start
> >
> > RunAtLoad
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > but I'm not sure I can do that, and I have 2 programs to run for my
> > project, so would I create 3 entries like so :
> >
> >
> >
> > "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd%26quot%3B 
> %26gt">http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">;
> >
> >
> >
> > Label
> > com.example.virtualenv
> > Program
> > source
> > ProgramArguments
> >
> > /path/to/myvirtualenv/bin/activate
> >
> > RunAtLoad
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Label
> > com.example.app1
> > Program
> > python
> > ProgramArguments
> >
> > /path/to/myproj/launcher.py
> > app1
> > start
> >
> > RunAtLoad
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Label
> > com.example.app2
> > Program
> > python
> > ProgramArguments
> >
> > /path/to/myproj/launcher.py
> > app2
> > start
> >
> > RunAtLoad
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Or is there a better/another way to do this?
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