On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 2:29 AM Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer <arj.pyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > It's somewhat easy > > > def activate_on_linux(): > sys.subprocess([sys.executable, ...]) >
Not sure what this means. Can you elaborate? Also, "Linux" or "Windows" isn't really the thing. It needs to care about the shell, not the operating system. 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/3BZZX3BTYDUB2P5MFYRYSXCD254HGIU3/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
