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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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Monitor does not come out of sleep at power-up until I press reset button

I have just upgraded from Ubuntu 18.1 to Ubuntu 19.04. My PC configuration is: Motherboard: Gigabyte EP43T-USB3 Processor: Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66GHz Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GT 730/PCIe/...
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systemd service running from pipenv

I wanted to install ElastAlert, an alerting tool written in python2, inside of a pipenv in an attempt to keep applications and their requirements/ dependencies from stepping on one another while ...
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Keeps getting &Python Path was unexpect at this time error in VS Code

This issue happening starting from today when I was doing some coding in Python in Visual Studio Code. I usually develop my program in a virtual environment, but today for some reason, when I tried to ...
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pip install -r requirements.txt not installing everything

I recently installed Mojave and then I had to upgrade my VirtualBox & vagrant afterwards. I am currently having an issue installing the requirements.txt in my venv. Could not find a version that ...
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VSCode remote Python virtual environment

Here is how the thing doesn't work: The project source code is located on a remote machine. The Python virtual environment is installed in the project's root directory (using venv). I sshfs the ...
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how to auto start supervisor installed in a virtual env on host startup/boot

I have an ubuntu server, and installed supervisor already in side my virtualenv, and it's working when I manually start it up. I also tried to put the init script under /etc/init.d/ folder, but cannot ...
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Installing the python packages in virtual enviroment with sudo

Actually I came across the problem while trying to install mySQL on a Django development virtual environment. pip install mysqlclient I tried running sudo pip install mysqlclient. It runs well, but ...
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Is there a simple low-overhead way to install deb packages in a virtual environment?

When I'm working on some arbitrary project I usually need a couple of packages. For all the python packages I create a virtualenv so that once I'm done I can delete the whole thing, and it does not ...
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Python virtualenv not activating in Windows 10 Cmder

I use Cmder on windows 10 with Python 3.5 and virtualenv on my laptop and work computer just fine. Now I have a new computer running Windows 10, Python 3.5, virtualenv 15.0 and I am able to ...
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Remove Python alias to use virtualenv for Python

When I install virtualenv and activate it which python returns my /usr/bin/python. I read here it is because I have python alias in my bash startup scipt and virtualenv doesn't work with it. However, ...
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bash shell error: "no such file or directory"

I am trying to install Virtualenv wrapper on Ubuntu 14.04. But whenever I start a terminal, I get the error saying bash: /usr/share/virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper_lazy.sh: No such file or ...
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Unable to set up virtualenv on CentOS for python3

I am using a server that runs CentOS. The default version of python there is 2.7. It also has python3.4 installed. The package I need to work with requires python3.5. I installed python3.5 but it was ...
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pip install virtualenv taking forever on Windows 7

I'm trying to setup everything in order to start developing with python and Django on a Windows 7 laptop. I already installed python 2.7.11 from here and installed pip using the get-pip.py script and ...
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Hook into "command not found" handler in Ubuntu

I want to hook into the handler for command not found wim@SDFA100461C:~$ thing No command 'thing' found, did you mean: Command 'tping' from package 'lam-runtime' (universe) Command 'thin' from ...
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Create a Python 3 virtual environment

I installed python3-virtualenv on Lubuntu 15.1 using the official Ubuntu package apt-get install python3-virtualenv. The official documentation indicates that a simple virtualenv . in my project ...
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How to install numpy on Python 2.7 in virtualenv?

I'm trying to install numpy on Python 2.7 in virtualenv (on Cygwin). However, when I try to import numpy, I get an ImportError: Administrator@Ron ~/python/virtualenv $ virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python2....
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How can I troubleshoot VENVs `--system-site-packages` not mirroring my system?

I'm running Arch Linux and want to use virtual environments to install only those few PIP packages I use for specific projects while continuing to use the Arch packages for Python. However, when I ...
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Find the explicit path of %USERPROFILE% in windows 7

I am trying to find the current %USERPROFILE% path on windows 7. What is the simplest way to do this? I've tried hunting around with regedit N.b. I'm doing this as part of setting up a python ...
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virtualenv cannot create environment

System used= ubuntu 14.04 , python = 2.7.6 . I'm trying to setup virtualenvironment using virtualenv to setup django1.8 . I installed pip and virtualenv using below commands apt-get install python-...
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lost virtualenv display to the left of bash prompt

I added thy Holy prompt to display my current branch so I never push to master. We all use it and it works, but I am no-longer seeing what virtualenv I'm using at the moment, which is a hassle. Based ...

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