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virtualenv is a tool that creates sandboxed Python environments.

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Windows CMD cannot use Python Virtualenv or Django commands

I'm trying to use python Virtualenv and Django. I have successfully installed both using Pip. On every tutorial I've found, it tells me to open CMD and type in a command. For example: C:\Users\USER\...
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python virtualenv ERROR: unknown command "config"

# virtualenv tmp/.venv New python executable in /root/tmp/.venv/bin/python Complete output from command /root/tmp/.venv/bin/python -m pip config list: ERROR: unknown command "config" -----------------...
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Docker build succeeds on one system but not on other

System info I've been Dockerizing an application on System A, which is a Debian 12 clean installation, AMD64 architecture. The system info: Linux debian12.localdomain 6.1.0-17-amd64 #1 SMP ...
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I started virtualenv on Mac OS, then unable to deactivate it completely

I started virtualenv on my Mac OS, using the commands python -m virtualenv envsp source env/bin/activate Then it was successfully activated. Then I entered exit, and I got a response which says ...
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virtualenv and pip version inside

I installed fresh Ubuntu 20.04 (which I believe comes with python3.8) and then additionally installed: sudo apt install python3.9 sudo apt install python3.9-dev sudo apt install python3-pip I want to ...
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What is the alternative for source command in cmd?

I want to run the Windows (Command Prompt) equivalent of source myvenv/bin/activate so as to activate and enter into my virtual environment.
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Can't install virtual interpreter in PyCharm in Linux

When I try to add virtualenv as an interpreter in PyCharm Community 2018.1.2 in Kubuntu 18.04 I get the following error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.core' How can I solve this?
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What do double curly braces mean in systemd scripts?

A stackoverflow answer about running python scripts upon system startup uses {{ and }} in its syntax. What do they mean? ExecStart={{ venv_home }}/bin/fooservice --serve-in-foreground I am also not ...
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Philosophy of virtualenv

Can somebody explain the philosophy of virtualenv? I fully understand how it works - if I use scripts by hand. I've to enter to some folder, run virtualenv and do what I want in secure environment. ...
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`python3.7: bad interpreter: No such file or directory`

I installed Python, pip3, and virtualenv as in this guide for TensorFlow: brew install python pip3 install -U virtualenv Then I was able to create a virtual environment with: virtualenv --system-...
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Unable to set python environments with old interpreters

I have installed virtualenvwrapper on Arch Linux, as well as the AUR repository python38 so I can set an environment and work with TensorFlow. I have set up .bashrc as usually recommended on the docs ...
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Permission Denied When Trying to Create Python3 Virtual Environment

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS I'm trying to allow users to create their own virutalenv for python3, however when trying to create said environment using a standard user account with this command:$ python3 -m venv ...
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User and virtual environment in ubuntu linux

Hi I'm new to linux and currently I'm using ubuntu as my linux distribution. Right now I'm confused about user in ubuntu and search online about it. I found article about it in digital ocean that says ...
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I have lost the venv part of my agnoster prompt on Apple Mac

macOS 10.12.6 Sierra Hello, I have just installed Zsh and Oh-my-zsh. I then selected the Agnoster theme and was very happy with it. Now, after some tweaking I seem to have lost the venv part of my ...
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How to create python virtualenv through userdata in an Amazon EC2 (Amazon Linux 2) instance?

How to create python virtual environment in ec2-instances? I am try to create virtual environment in ec2-instances while i am creating ec2-instances so need to imporve the code on user-data. User-data ...
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macOS Catalina (10.15) not using correct Python interpreter within virtual environment

Since updating to Catalina, after activating a virtual environment, it does not affect which python interpreter is called when using the python or python3 command. I confirmed that I am still using ...
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How can I customize the virtualenv info in zsh theme?

I use the bureau theme (little customized) with oh-my-zsh. .zshrc file zsh-theme file p0tt3r@wand ~ [21:19:10] () >🔮$ ...
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virtualenv creates a thousand processes in cygwin

So i attempted to run a virtual environment, but the command, virtualenv venv Started about 1000 python processes and never completed. Is this normal or some bug? I am working in cygwin on windows ...
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error msg when open linux terminal

I installed a virtualenv in the other day using pip and its not working properly, also when i start the terminal it opens whit that msg on the top > bash: /usr/bin/python: Arquivo ou diretório ...
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Activate virtualenv using alias

I can activate my python virtual environment from it's folder by entering . bin/activate. I'd like to instead type a single word alias, such as shazam, from the home folder (or anywhere else) that ...
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pytest WinError 123 on Windows 10 in conda virtual environment

My question is probably related to this SU question. But this question did not receive any answers, so I will describe the problem again: I open my Anaconda prompt, navigate to my project directory, ...
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Properly installing and using Nuitka within Anaconda, " No module named 'nuitka.__main__' "

I'm trying to use Nuitka within the Anaconda Prompt. Nuitka has been installed through conda: conda install -c conda-forge nuitka See documentation here: https://nuitka.net/doc/user-manual.html#...
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Setting virtualenv and running python code on boot

I'm trying to have some code executed on boot and haven't been able to get it to run as rc.local, cron, or a system service. So I'm sure I'm doing something wrong -- I just don't know what. These are ...
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Cannot create virtual environment in Pycharm 2019.1 with anaconda 3

How can I create a python virtual environment interpreter with Pycharm and Anaconda? The usual procedure doesn't work. With new Pycharm 2019.1 and Anaconda 3, I am unable to create a virtual ...
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my virtual environment cannot be found

I'm on a PC windows 10 and always open git bash, then source activate my-env and open a jupyter notebook; somehow my-env broke and I get this error: "C:\bld\conda_1565126647711_h_env/etc/profile.d/...
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virtualenv returns [Errno 13] Permission denied

I am trying to start a new virtual environment in my folder. I have Python3, Python2 and virtualenv installed, it doesn't seem to be a dependency problem. I do the command: sudo virtualenv -p ...
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Error "You must 'source' the script:" while trying to ativate python virtualenv on Windows10

python 3.7.1 Windows 10 Powershell Steps taken: create folder for envs change to folder pip install virtualenv virtualenv "abc" abc\Scripts\activate This throws the error stated in the title. I have ...
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Error creating virtual environment and using pip

Everytime I try to use pip to do something pip install <package> I get an error OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor I tried installing and reinstalling anaconda. I'm currently trying ...
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Unable to set python3 as default on cloud9 using virtualenv

I'm using AWS cloud9 and am having trouble switching from python2 (which is default when you create an environment) to python3. My goal is to run a flask app and have it run in python3. I've tried ...
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Creating Python venv for running a dash application on PythonAnywhere

I am trying to create a Python venv to include packages like dash so I can deploy a dash application on PythonAnywhere. I was unable to follow the PythonAnywhere instructions for creating a virtual ...

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