[Distutils] bootstrapping virtualenv?

Ian Bicking ianb at colorstudy.com
Tue Aug 11 19:40:39 CEST 2009


On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk>wrote:

> Am I right in thinking the correct way to get a virtualenv without
> installing virtualenv into your site-packages is:
>
> - download a source distro of virtualenv
>
> - unpack it and copy virtualenv.py somewhere
>
> - use that virtualenv.py with whatever python you want to create your
> virtualenvs?
>

You don't actually have to install virtualenv, just grab virtualenv.py
(e.g., directly from svn) and run it.  (Ditto pip)


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