Question

[justin walters]

Well, from that error message, it seems like you may have a permissions
issue. Also, the git shell is not the sane as a real shell. There are
multiple windows terminal emulators. Why not use one of those?
On Mar 7, 2016 5:46 PM, "Jon Ribbens" <jon+usenet at unequivocal.co.uk> wrote:

> On 2016-03-07, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Jon Ribbens
> ><jon+usenet at unequivocal.co.uk> wrote:
> >> I must say that Python on Windows was a very poor experience indeed,
> >> "virtualenv" does not work and "venv" refuses to create the 'activate'
> >> shell script so does not work either
> >
> > I've used both of these on Windows (although not recently) and had no
> > trouble with them. I never had a problem with venv not creating the
> > activate.bat file.
>
> It's not activate.bat, it's activate (no file extension) the posix
> shell script. I installed Git for Windows which provides bash (or
> something that looks like it). Python venv doesn't cope with this
> situation at all.
>
> 'virtualenv' works even less well, it just says:
>
> $ virtualenv test
> Using base prefix 'd:\\program files (x86)\\python35-32'
> New python executable in D:\Users\Jon
> Ribbens\Documents\Python\test\Scripts\python.exe
> ERROR: The executable "D:\Users\Jon
> Ribbens\Documents\Python\test\Scripts\python.exe" could not be run:
> [WinError 5] Access is denied
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