Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> added the comment:
> so maybe proposing a simple `venv --activate <path>` that does nothing more > than set those key environment variables If venv is run in a child process of the shell, how does it set those variables in the parent shell? I thought that wasn't possible (on POSIX, anyway), which is why e.g. pew spawns a subshell. > Sure, but then that doesn't mean activation isn't convenient Indeed it is. But many less experienced users think that it's always a necessary step, when it isn't always so. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35003> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
