virtualenvwrapper 4.7.1.dev3

virtualenvwrapper is a set of extensions to Ian Bicking’s virtualenv tool. The extensions include wrappers for creating and deleting virtual environments and otherwise managing your development workflow, making it easier to work on more than one project at a time without introducing conflicts in their dependencies.

Features

1. Organizes all of your virtual environments in one place.
2. Wrappers for managing your virtual environments (create, delete, copy).
3. Use a single command to switch between environments.
4. Tab completion for commands that take a virtual environment as argument.
5. User-configurable hooks for all operations (see Per-User Customization).
6. Plugin system for more creating sharable extensions (see Extending Virtualenvwrapper).

Introduction

The best way to explain the features virtualenvwrapper gives you is to show it in use.
First, some initialization steps. Most of this only needs to be done one time. You will want to add the command to source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh to your shell startup file, changing the path to virtualenvwrapper.sh depending on where it was installed by pip.

$ pip install virtualenvwrapper
...
$ export WORKON_HOME=~/Envs
$ mkdir -p $WORKON_HOME
$ source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
$ mkvirtualenv env1
Installing
setuptools..........................................
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...............................done.
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts Creating /Users/dhellmann/Envs/env1/bin/predeactivate
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts Creating /Users/dhellmann/Envs/env1/bin/postdeactivate
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts Creating /Users/dhellmann/Envs/env1/bin/preactivate
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts Creating /Users/dhellmann/Envs/env1/bin/postactivate  New python executable in env1/bin/python
(env1)$ ls $WORKON_HOME
env1 hook.log

Now we can install some software into the environment.

(env1)$ pip install django
Downloading/unpacking django
  Downloading Django-1.1.1.tar.gz (5.6Mb): 5.6Mb downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package django
Installing collected packages: django
  Running setup.py install for django
    changing mode of build/scripts-2.6/django-admin.py from 644 to 755
    changing mode of /Users/dhellmann/Envs/env1/bin/django-admin.py to 755
Successfully installed django

We can see the new package with lssitepackages:

(env1)$ lssitepackages
Django-1.1.1-py2.6.egg-info     easy-install.pth
setuptools-0.6.10-py2.6.egg     pip-0.6.3-py2.6.egg
django                          setuptools.pth

Of course we are not limited to a single virtualenv:

(env1)$ ls $WORKON_HOME
env1            hook.log
(env1)$ mkvirtualenv env2
Installing setuptools...............................
....................................................
....................................................
........... ...............................done.
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts Creating /Users/dhellmann/Envs/env2/bin/predeactivate
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts Creating /Users/dhellmann/Envs/env2/bin/postdeactivate
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts Creating /Users/dhellmann/Envs/env2/bin/preactivate
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts Creating /Users/dhellmann/Envs/env2/bin/postactivate  New python executable in env2/bin/python
(env2)$ ls $WORKON_HOME
env1            env2            hook.log

Switch between environments with workon:

(env2)$ workon env1
(env1)$ echo $VIRTUAL_ENV
/Users/dhellmann/Envs/env1
(env1)$

The workon command also includes tab completion for the environment names, and invokes customization scripts as an environment is activated or deactivated (see Per-User Customization).

(env1)$ echo 'cd $VIRTUAL_ENV' >> $WORKON_HOME/postactivate
(env1)$ workon env2
(env2)$ pwd
/Users/dhellmann/Envs/env2

postmkvirtualenv is run when a new environment is created, letting you automatically install commonly-used tools.

(env2)$ echo 'pip install sphinx' >> $WORKON_HOME/postmkvirtualenv
(env3)$ mkvirtualenv env3
New python executable in env3/bin/python
Installing setuptools...............................
....................................................
....................................................
........... ...............................done.
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts Creating /Users/dhellmann/Envs/env3/bin/predeactivate
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts Creating /Users/dhellmann/Envs/env3/bin/postdeactivate
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts Creating /Users/dhellmann/Envs/env3/bin/preactivate
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts Creating /Users/dhellmann/Envs/env3/bin/postactivate
Downloading/unpacking sphinx
  Downloading Sphinx-0.6.5.tar.gz (972Kb): 972Kb downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package sphinx
    no previously-included directories found matching 'doc/_build'
Downloading/unpacking Pygments>=0.8 (from sphinx)
  Downloading Pygments-1.3.1.tar.gz (1.1Mb): 1.1Mb downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package Pygments
Downloading/unpacking Jinja2>=2.1 (from sphinx)
  Downloading Jinja2-2.4.tar.gz (688Kb): 688Kb downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package Jinja2
    warning: no previously-included files matching '*' found under directory 'docs/_build/doctrees'
Downloading/unpacking docutils>=0.4 (from sphinx)
  Downloading docutils-0.6.tar.gz (1.4Mb): 1.4Mb downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package docutils
Installing collected packages: docutils, Jinja2, Pygments, sphinx
  Running setup.py install for docutils
  Running setup.py install for Jinja2
  Running setup.py install for Pygments
  Running setup.py install for sphinx
    no previously-included directories found matching 'doc/_build'
    Installing sphinx-build script to /Users/dhellmann/Envs/env3/bin
    Installing sphinx-quickstart script to /Users/dhellmann/Envs/env3/bin
    Installing sphinx-autogen script to /Users/dhellmann/Envs/env3/bin
Successfully installed docutils Jinja2 Pygments sphinx  (env3)$
(venv3)$ which sphinx-build
/Users/dhellmann/Envs/env3/bin/sphinx-build