[Chicago] Per virtualenv environment variables

Adam "Cezar" Jenkins emperorcezar at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 22:15:29 CEST 2012


Does virtualenvwrapper alter bin/activate to call the hooks?

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Tim Saylor <tim.saylor at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you use virtualenvwrapper then the pre- and post- activate scripts are
> the way to do it.
>
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Adam "Cezar" Jenkins <
> emperorcezar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> At work I'm working on a new infrastructure. For various reasons, I
>> really like how Heroku does app local settings, but can't use Heroku. They
>> are set in the environment variables. For instance, I would use the Heroku
>> command like so
>>
>> heroku config:add aws_key=1234567890
>>
>> and I could pull that in side my Django settings file with env['aws_key']
>>
>> So I've been wondering what the best way is to set environment variables
>> on a per virtualenv case? So far I've only come up with a custom activate
>> script, or code in my Django app that updates the env dictionary using a
>> .cfg or .yml file found in the virtualenv. I'm sure there's some python or
>> bash magic that would make it easier?
>>
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