virtualenv question: include just a few site packages

[Jean-Michel Pichavant]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gelonida N" <gelonida at gmail.com>
> To: python-list at python.org
> Sent: Thursday, 9 October, 2014 5:55:44 PM
> Subject: Re: virtualenv question: include just a few site packages
> > You could build a virtual machine, installing only your VIP
> > modules, and create virtual environment on this virtual machine,
> > using the system site packages.
> >
> 
> Yeah that's an option.
> 
> However I guess in this case it's probably faster to write a script,
> that 'post-processes' the virtualenv and just deletes files /
> symlinks,
> that are not desired. Definitely not elegant, but probably OK. On the
> other hand a VM migfht help finding out which files to keep.
> 

if you have the package somewhere of those modules you'd want to install you can specify local packages in the pip_requirement.txt file:

https://pip.readthedocs.org/en/1.1/requirements.html

JM


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