[Tutor] Preparing virtualenvwrapper for Django 1.6 development

Walter Prins wprins at gmail.com
Tue Aug 26 15:54:19 CEST 2014


Hi,

To add:

On 23 August 2014 08:54, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube
> <zebra05 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am developing on a Windows 8.1 machine and wold like to setup
> > virtualenvironment via virtualenvwrapper so as to have a properly set up
> > Python development environment.
>
> > Would anyone be so kind as to translate this to Windows speak, as well as
> > perhaps pointing out what file this would go into in a Windows environment?
>
> virtualenvwrapper does not work in Windows.  You should use regular
> virtualenv instead.  Read this:
> http://virtualenv.readthedocs.org/en/latest/virtualenv.html#usage

On Windows I'd also suggest looking at virtualenvwrapper-powershell,
which is a PowerShell version of virtualenvwrapper, (PowerShell being
the effective de-facto modern-day shell for current Windows):
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenvwrapper-powershell/2.7.1
http://www.tylerbutler.com/2012/05/how-to-install-python-pip-and-virtualenv-on-windows-with-powershell/

Walter


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