[issue47093] Documentation Fix: Remove .bat when activating venv on windows

[J Y]

J Y  added the comment:

Do you think it's worth changing it to just activate and adding a footnote 
mentioning the variations as I've been a dev for a few years now and it stumped 
me for a minute as I work in a few different envs. 

Mainly thinking of making setting up venv's as easy as possible for new comers 
with one less roadblock on their journey.

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[issue47093] Documentation Fix: Remove .bat when activating venv on windows

[Eryk Sun]

Eryk Sun  added the comment:

Running `tutorial-env\Scripts\activate` should suffice. The .bat script is for 
CMD, and the .ps1 script is for PowerShell. The shell should run the right 
script without having to include the extension. 

In Windows 10+, if you use a case-sensitive directory for the virtual 
environment, note that the script name for PowerShell is "Activate.ps1". 
PowerShell 7+ checks the directory for any name that case-insensitively matches 
"activate", but you'll have to run `tutorial-env\Scripts\Activate` in 
PowerShell 5.1.

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components: +Windows
keywords: +easy
nosy: +eryksun, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
stage:  -> needs patch
versions: +Python 3.10, Python 3.9

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[issue47093] Documentation Fix: Remove .bat when activating venv on windows

[J Y]

New submission from J Y :

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/venv.html

For windows, tutorial-env\Scripts\activate.bat doesn't appear to set up venv 
successfully. 

Instead, tutorial-env\Scripts\activate (without .bat) works. This may confuse 
new users if this is not rectified.

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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 415783
nosy: docs@python, jovinator
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Documentation Fix: Remove .bat when activating venv on windows
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.11

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