All of the commands below are to be used on the Terminal command line.
Create a new environment, in the WORKON_HOME.
Syntax:
mkvirtualenv [options] ENVNAME
All command line options are passed directly to virtualenv. The new environment is automatically activated after being initialized.
$ workon
$ mkvirtualenv mynewenv
New python executable in mynewenv/bin/python
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done.
(mynewenv)$ workon
mynewenv
(mynewenv)$
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Remove an environment, in the WORKON_HOME.
Syntax:
rmvirtualenv ENVNAME
You must use deactivate before removing the current environment.
(mynewenv)$ deactivate
$ rmvirtualenv mynewenv
$ workon
$
See also
Duplicate an environment, in the WORKON_HOME.
Syntax:
cpvirtualenv ENVNAME TARGETENVNAME
Note
The environment created by the copy operation is made relocatable.
$ workon
$ mkvirtualenv source
New python executable in source/bin/python
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done.
(source)$ cpvirtualenv source dest
Making script /Users/dhellmann/Devel/virtualenvwrapper/tmp/dest/bin/easy_install relative
Making script /Users/dhellmann/Devel/virtualenvwrapper/tmp/dest/bin/easy_install-2.6 relative
Making script /Users/dhellmann/Devel/virtualenvwrapper/tmp/dest/bin/pip relative
Script /Users/dhellmann/Devel/virtualenvwrapper/tmp/dest/bin/postactivate cannot be made relative (it's not a normal script that starts with #!/Users/dhellmann/Devel/virtualenvwrapper/tmp/dest/bin/python)
Script /Users/dhellmann/Devel/virtualenvwrapper/tmp/dest/bin/postdeactivate cannot be made relative (it's not a normal script that starts with #!/Users/dhellmann/Devel/virtualenvwrapper/tmp/dest/bin/python)
Script /Users/dhellmann/Devel/virtualenvwrapper/tmp/dest/bin/preactivate cannot be made relative (it's not a normal script that starts with #!/Users/dhellmann/Devel/virtualenvwrapper/tmp/dest/bin/python)
Script /Users/dhellmann/Devel/virtualenvwrapper/tmp/dest/bin/predeactivate cannot be made relative (it's not a normal script that starts with #!/Users/dhellmann/Devel/virtualenvwrapper/tmp/dest/bin/python)
(dest)$ workon
dest
source
(dest)$
List or change working virtual environments
Syntax:
workon [environment_name]
If no environment_name is given the list of available environments is printed to stdout.
$ workon
$ mkvirtualenv env1
New python executable in env1/bin/python
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done.
(env1)$ mkvirtualenv env2
New python executable in env2/bin/python
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done.
(env2)$ workon
env1
env2
(env2)$ workon env1
(env1)$ echo $VIRTUAL_ENV
/Users/dhellmann/Devel/virtualenvwrapper/tmp/env1
(env1)$ workon env2
(env2)$ echo $VIRTUAL_ENV
/Users/dhellmann/Devel/virtualenvwrapper/tmp/env2
(env2)$
Switch from a virtual environment to the system-installed version of Python.
Syntax:
deactivate
Note
This command is actually part of virtualenv, but is wrapped to provide before and after hooks, just as workon does for activate.
$ workon
$ echo $VIRTUAL_ENV
$ mkvirtualenv env1
New python executable in env1/bin/python
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done.
(env1)$ echo $VIRTUAL_ENV
/Users/dhellmann/Devel/virtualenvwrapper/tmp/env1
(env1)$ deactivate
$ echo $VIRTUAL_ENV
$
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Adds the specified directories to the Python path for the currently-active virtualenv.
Syntax:
add2virtualenv directory1 directory2 ...
Sometimes it is desirable to share installed packages that are not in the system site-pacakges directory and which should not be installed in each virtualenv. One possible solution is to symlink the source into the environment site-packages directory, but it is also easy to add extra directories to the PYTHONPATH by including them in a .pth file inside site-packages using add2virtualenv.
The directory names are added to a path file named virtualenv_path_extensions.pth inside the site-packages directory for the environment.
Based on a contribution from James Bennett and Jannis Leidel.