On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 1:42 AM Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer <arj.pyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Greetings list, > > put simply, > > be able to use > > $ python -m venv venv_name activate > > To activate an env instead of having each platform have a way of > handling it >
Unfortunately, that wouldn't work. Activating a virtual environment means setting some env vars in the current shell, and Python is fundamentally unable to do that - it can only be done within the shell itself (by sourcing a script). You can, of course, simply run the Python executable from that venv, but activation is *by its nature* a shell feature, and will differ by shell. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/SRHBSWZEUGLZG55DGRHQZ4X7VOEPY6XC/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
