On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:11 PM, knowledge_seeker < [email protected]> wrote:
> I understand the importance of doing projects in virtual environments, but > I am hitting one snag. > > When I have an error in django, and I get the generated webpage with an > error message, it shows the 'normal' python path, site packages installed, > etc. For example, I have jinja on my main installation, but not in the > virtual environment. Yet, jinja shows up in this message as one of the site > packages; similarly with the other python packages. Is there any way to > show the python version (and location) and correct site-packages that are > in the virtual environment in these error messages? > It sounds like you've built a virtualenv with --system-site-packages enabled. If you've got an earlier version of virtualenv (IIRC, version 1.4 or earlier), this was the default option when you created a virtualenv. When you construct a virtualenv in this way, it's an extension of your system - so anything in your system PYTHONPATH will also show up in your virtualenv. If, on the other hand, you create your virtualenv with --no-site-packages (which is the default on more recent versions of virtualenv), the virtualenv is completely isolated. If you don't install a package in your virtualenv, it won't be available. To check what version of virtualenv you have, the usual --version flag works; if you run --help, the description for --no-site-packages will tell you whether it's the default or not. As for checking where a package has come from -- if you're in a Python shell, you can ask Python itself where it got a module. For example: >>> import django >>> django.__file__ '/Users/rkm/.virtualenvs/sample/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/__init__.pyc' tells you that I'm getting Django from the version installed in my "sample" virtualenv. I hope that helps. Yours, Russ Magee %-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAJxq84-p3DhEGOBxTbfxSw1kN_AvUG%3DyUTf8bO0UZ10cpp5sNg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
