Question

Is possible to configure PYTHONPATH for a virtualenv automatically with mkvirtualenv? I don’t define PYTHONPATH in my ~/.bashrc, but in each virtualenv. Every time I create a new virtualenv, I have to put these lines in $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/activate manually:

in deactivate function:

unset PYTHONPATH

outside deactivate:

PYTHONPATH="$VIRTUAL_ENV/lib/python2.7/site-packages"

I’d like to put these lines automatically with mkvirtualenv. I’m using virtualenv 1.7.1.2.

Answer 1

The path $VIRTUAL_ENV/lib/python2.7/site-packages is default in virtualenv. I only removed ipython from my system and installed it inside virtualenv:

workon myvirtualenv
pip install ipython

Thus, I checked path using inside ipython using:

import sys
sys.path