[Baypiggies] using virtualenv

[Benjamin Sergeant]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Simeon Franklin <simeonf at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:48 AM,  <baypiggies-request at python.org> wrote:
> > From: Benjamin Sergeant <bsergean at gmail.com>
> > $ svn co /path/to/my/project
> > $ cd my/project
> > $ virtualenv pyenv
> > New python executable in pyenv/bin/python
> > Installing setuptools............done.
> > $ pip install -E pyenv ply
> > Downloading/unpacking ply
> >  Downloading ply-3.2.tar.gz (139Kb): 139Kb downloaded
> >  Running setup.py egg_info for package ply
> > Installing collected packages: ply
> >  Running setup.py install for ply
> > Successfully installed ply
> > $ export PATH=pyenv/bin:$PATH
>
> I'm glad you're trying out pip!


Me too. From my 20 seconds playing with it experience 2 things nice with pip
are the download progress report, plus the -E virtualenv switch.


> Any particular reason not to use the
> built-in "activate" command?
>

It was just that I'm not a big fan of the ugly prompt activate adds. But it
might be doing more than setting up the PATH, and I think I can get over the
few chars activate add to the prompt.

Cheers,
- Benjamin



> I also didn't mention in my presentation (since I was kind of rushing)
> but Doug Hellman (who writes the excellent "Python Module of the Week"
> series) wrote a shell script tool to manage many virtual envs. See
> http://www.doughellmann.com/projects/virtualenvwrapper/
>
> -regards
> Simeon
>
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