Tim Golden added the comment: The key point here is that if I run the example as given on my Win 8.1 box, it doesn't work. (The venv I'm using is called nw0).
d:\tim\.venvs>dir nw0\Scripts\activate.bat Volume in drive D is New Volume Volume Serial Number is 2639-22DA Directory of d:\tim\.venvs\nw0\Scripts 30/03/2016 07:45 547 activate.bat 1 File(s) 547 bytes 0 Dir(s) 458,354,536,448 bytes free d:\tim\.venvs> d:\tim\.venvs>nw0/Scripts/activate.bat 'nw0' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. d:\tim\.venvs> ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27045> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com