On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 9:17 PM, Alec Taylor <alec.tayl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Running Ubuntu 16.10 with Python 2.7.12+ (default one) and virtualenv > 15.0.3 (`sudo -H pip install virtualenv`). What am I doing wrong? > > $ virtualenv a && . "$_"/bin/activate && pip --version
I'm pretty sure virtualenv (like venv, about which I'm certain) creates something that you have to 'source' into your shell, rather than running in the classic way: source env/bin/activate It needs to alter environment variables in your shell, which can't be done from a separate program. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list