Chris Angelico wrote: > 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 && . "$_"/bin/activate && pip --version > > I'm pretty sure virtualenv (like venv, about which I'm certain) > creates something that you have to 'source' into your shell, rather > than running in the classic way: > > source env/bin/activate
I think this is what the . "$_"/bin/activate part of Alec's command is supposed to do. Yes, that's a dot, not grit on Tim's screen ;) > It needs to alter environment variables in your shell, which can't be > done from a separate program. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list