[Pythonmac-SIG] Lanchd + virtualenv

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 30 Sep, 2009, at 17:31, Gabriel Rossetti wrote:

> Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>>
>> On 25 Sep, 2009, at 14:56, Gabriel Rossetti wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I would like to create a Launchd plist entry to start a virtualenv  
>>> and run a python project. I created my plist, but I'm not sure how  
>>> to get it to activate the virtualenv and run the program.
>>
>> Unless you do something special you don't have to activate the  
>> virtualenv at all, just make sure that the '#!' line in the script  
>> you're starting refers to the python in the virtualenv (instead of  
>> having '#!/usr/bin/env python').
>>
>> I have a virtualenv containing a mercurial installation and  
>> regularly use the mercurial command-line tools without activating  
>> the virtualenv.
>>
>> Ronald
>>
> Ok, thanks, so from what I understand I only need to activate it if  
> I have to install a package into it.

You only have to activate when you need to have executables from the  
virtualenv on your shell's search-path (that is $PATH). Activating is  
handy when you are installing software, but is also needed when a  
script in the virtualenv executes another script in the environment  
and assumes that that other script is on the search-path.

Ronald
>
> Gabriel

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