How do I activate a virtualenv inside PyCharm s terminal

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I ve set up PyCharm  created my virtualenv  either through the virtual env command  or directly in PyCharm  and activated that environment as my Interpreter  Everything is working just fine   However  if I open a terminal using  Tools  Open Terminal   the shell prompt supplied is not using the virtual env  I still have to use source   envs someenv bin activate within that Terminal to activate it   Another method is to activate the environment in a shell  and run PyCharm from that environment  This is  workable  but pretty ugly  and means I have major problems if I switch environments or projects from PyCharm  I m now using the totally-wrong environment   Is there some other  much-easier way to have  Tools  Open Terminal  automatically activate the virtual environment

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Update   The preferences in Settings  Preferences    Tools   Terminal are global  If you use a venv for each project  remember to use current path variable and a default venv name    cmd exe   k    CD  venv Scripts activate        For Windows users  when using PyCharm with a virtual environment  you can use the  K parameter to cmd exe to set the virtual environment automatically   PyCharm 3 or 4  Settings  Terminal  Default shell and add  K  lt path-to-your-activate bat gt    PyCharm 5  Settings  Tools  Terminal  and add  K  lt path-to-your-activate bat gt  to Shell path   PyCharm 2016 1 or 2016 2  Settings  Tools  Terminal  and add    K  lt path-to-your-activate bat gt    to Shell path and add  mind the quotes   Also add quotes around cmd exe  resulting in    cmd exe   k   C  mypath my-venv Scripts activate bat

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If your Pycharm 2016 1 4v and higher you should use  default path   K   lt path-to-your-activate bat gt   don t forget quotes

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If You are using windows version it is quite easy  If you already have the virtual environment just navigate to its folder  find activate bat inside Scripts folder  copy it s full path and paste it in pycharm s terminal then press Enter and you re done   If you need to create new virtual environment    Go to files   settings then search for project interpreter  open it  click on gear button and create the environment wherever you want and then follow first paragraph

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This method should work with arbitrary virtual environments per project and it doesn t make assumptions on your environment as it is using hooks you create   You write    A global script that invokes the hook A hook script per PyCharm project  not mandatory    Given that the current latest PyCharm  Community 2016 1  does not allow for Terminal settings per project start with the script that invokes the project specific hook  This is my    pycharmrc   if   -r   pycharm term-activate     then    echo  Terminal activation hook detected      echo  Loading Bash profile        source    bash profile    echo  Activating terminal hook        source   pycharm term-activate     source activate  PYCHARM VENV fi   If you are using something other than Bash  invoke your own  bash profile equivalent should you wish to   Now set your PyCharm  Tools -  Terminal -  Shell Path  to invoke this script  e g    bin bash --rcfile    pycharmrc  Finally  for every PyCharm project you need a specific virtual environment activated  create a file within the PyCharm project root  pycharm term-activate  This is your hook and it will simply define the name of the desired virtual environment for your PyCharm project   export PYCHARM VENV  lt your-virtual-env-name gt    You can of course extend your hooks with anything you find useful in the terminal environment of your particular PyCharm project

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One option you have when you enter the terminal   Run   Debug   Edit Configurations     select the appropriate conda environmnent   Also when you create a new project - it asks to configure this location

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Thanks Chris  your script worked for some projects but not all on my machine  Here is a script that I wrote and I hope anyone finds it useful     Stored in    pycharmrc   ACTIVATERC   python -c  import re import os from glob import glob  try     sets Current Working Directory to  the projects  idea folder   os chdir os getcwd      idea        gets every file in the cwd and sets  the projects iml file   for file in glob            if re match       iml   file         project iml file   file     gets  the virtual env for  the project   for line in open project iml file       env name   re findall           jdkType   line strip          created or changed a virtual env after project creation  this will be true     if env name        print env name 0      bin activate        break      inherited   re findall  type   inheritedJdk     line strip          set a virtual env during project creation  this will be true     if inherited        break      find  the virtual env in misc xml   if inherited      for line in open  misc xml   readlines          env at project creation   re findall            project-jdk   line strip          if env at project creation          print env at project creation 0      bin activate          break finally    pass     if     ACTIVATERC      then     HOME  ACTIVATERC    fi

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Set an existing virtual environment   Official Document  https   www jetbrains com help pycharm creating-virtual-environment html keymap secondary macos existing-environment

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I have a solution that worked on my Windows 7 machine   I believe PyCharm s terminal is a result of it running cmd exe  which will load the Windows PATH variable  and use the version of Python that it finds first within that PATH  To edit this variable  right click My Computer --  Properties --  Advanced System Settings --  Advanced tab --  Environment Variables    button  Within the System variables section  select and edit the PATH variable   Here is the relevant part of my PATH before editing      C  Python27     C  Python27 Lib site-packages pip     C  Python27 Scripts    C  Python27 Lib site-packages django bin       and after editing PATH  only 3 lines now       C  project path  virtualenv-Py2 7 Dj1 7 Lib site-packages pip    C  project path  virtualenvs virtualenv-Py2 7 Dj1 7 Scripts    C  project path  virtualenvs virtualenv-Py2 7 Dj1 7 Lib site-packages django bin    To test this  open a new windows terminal  Start --  type in cmd and hit Enter  and see if it s using your virtual environment  If that works  restart PyCharm and then test it out in PyCharm s terminal

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On Windows  if you have already have the virtualenvironment eg   myvenv  located within the project root  you can activate it from the terminal as below    myvenv Scripts activate  Calling the activate from the virtualenv you desire to activate  activates the virtualenv  You know it is activated when you see the change  C  Projects Trunk MyProject gt   to  myvenv C  Projects Trunk MyProject gt

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I had the same problem with venv in PyCharm  But It is not big problem  Just do   enter in your terminal venv directory  cd venv Scripts    You will see activate bat Just enter activate bat in your terminal after this you will see YOUR   venv

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Following up on Peter s answer  here the Mac version of the  pycharmrc file   source  etc profile source    bash profile source   lt venv dir gt  bin activate   Hen

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PyCharm 4 5 4      Create a file  pycharmrc in your home folder with the following   contents  source    bashrc source   pycharmvenv bin activate       Using your virtualenv path as the last parameter       Then set the shell Preferences- Project Settings- Shell path to   bin bash --rcfile    pycharmrc    I don t why  but it doesn t work for me  PyCharm prints an error   cmd exe  K   lt path-to-your-activate bat gt    It works  but it creates the same virtualenv for each project  and even if this is not necessary   This receipt is working  But the string  env yourenvlocate scripts activate bat must contain quotes  like this  Full path to your env locate scripts activate bat    Deactivate the virtualenv is very easy - type in the terminal  deactivate    virt env  D  Projects src gt deactivate D  Projects src gt

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For Windows users when using PyCharm and a virtual environment under Windows  you can use the  k parameter to cmd exe to set the virtual environment automatically   Go to Settings  Terminal  Default shell and add  K  lt path-to-your-activate bat gt    I don t have the reputation to comment on the earlier response so posting this corrected version  This really saves a LOT of time    Update   Note  Pycharm now supports virtual environments directly and it seems to work well for me - so my workaround not needed anymore

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Based on answers from Peter and experimentation  I ve come up with a good  general solution   which solves the following    Restores the behaviour of a login shell  PyCharm normally runs a login shell  but --rcfile stopped this happening  Script still uses --rcfile  but attempts to emulate the INVOCATION behaviour of a login shell  Removes the need to create an rcfile for each environment Removes the need to update the project settings if you change the environment    Drop this script into a bin directory somewhere  E g    bin pycharmactivate  if   -r   etc profile      then    etc profile   fi if   -r     bash profile      then          bash profile elif   -r     bash login      then          bash login elif   -r     profile      then          profile fi ACTIVATERC  cat  idea workspace xml   perl -n -e  print    1 bin activate  if m option name  SDK HOME  value      USER HOME         bin python     if   -n   ACTIVATERC      then     HOME  ACTIVATERC    else echo  Could not find virtualenv from PyCharm    fi   Then set PyCharm s Shell path to    bin bash --rcfile   bin pycharmactivate

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For conda virtual environments on Windows  make sure your batch file is NOT named activate bat as this will cause a conflict with the conda activate command  resulting in a recursive calling of the batch file   What works for me is the following Shell path     cmd exe   k   C  FullPathToYourProject activate-env bat     And in the activate-env bat file   call activate myenvname

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Edit   According to https   www jetbrains com pycharm whatsnew  v2016-3-venv-in-terminal  PyCharm 2016 3  released Nov 2016  has virutalenv support for terminals out of the box     Auto virtualenv is supported for bash  zsh  fish  and Windows cmd  You   can customize your shell preference in Settings  Preferences    Tools     Terminal     Old Method   Create a file  pycharmrc in your home folder with the following contents  source    bashrc source   pycharmvenv bin activate   Using your virtualenv path as the last parameter   Then set the shell Preferences- Project Settings- Shell path to   bin bash --rcfile    pycharmrc

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Another alternative is to use virtualenvwrapper to manage your virtual environments  It appears that once the virtualenvwrapper script is activated  pycharm can use that and then the simple workon command will be available from the pycharm console and present you with the available virtual environments   kevin debian   Development django-tutorial  workon django-tutorial FlaskHF SQLAlchemy themarkdownapp kevin debian   Development django-tutorial  workon django-tutorial  django-tutorial kevin debian   Development django-tutorial

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PyCharm 4 now has virtualenvs integrated in the IDE   When selecting your project interpreter  you can create  add  or select a virtualenv   They ve added a  Python Console  that runs in the configured project interpreter   More info here

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If you have moved your project to another directory  you can set the new path via Settings dialog  And then you need to set this Project Interpreter in the Edit Configuration dialog

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this is what i am doing  create a activate env bat windows maybe   sh in linux  file in the source code folde    env yourenvlocate scripts activate bat   and another file deactivate env bat    env yourenvlocate scripts deactivate bat   everytime  open the terminal window  just execute the bat file to activate deactivate the virtualenv  you will stay in source code path  no need to change path to and back   E  Projects django study src gt active env bat  E  Projects django study src gt    env django study scripts activate bat  env django study  E  Projects django study src gt      env django study  E  Projects django study src gt deactive env bat   env django study E  Projects django study src gt    env django study scripts deactivate bat E  Projects django study src gt

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I wanted a separate virtual environment for each project  and didn t care much for having additional files to facilitate this  A solution which you only need to do once and works for all projects is then adding the following to your  bashrc or  bash profile   if   -d    venv     then     source   venv bin activate fi   This checks if there is a virtual environment where the terminal is being opened  and if so activates it  and of course other relative paths could be used   PyCharm s terminal settings can be left as their default

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On Mac it s PyCharm    Preferences       Tools    Terminal    Activate virtualenv  which should be enabled by default

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I have viewed all of the answers above but none of them is elegant enough for me  In Pycharm 2017 1 3 in my computer   the easiest way is to open Settings- gt Tools- gt Terminal and check Shell integration and Activate virtualenv options

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I just added a script named pycharmactivate to my home directory  Set value of PyCharm  4 0 1  File   Settings   Tools   Terminal   Shell path  to  bin bash --rcfile   pycharmactivate  Maybe not the best solution incase you have different project and virtualenv directories names but it works for me  This script contains the following 3 lines and assumes your virtualenv has the same name as your project dir   source    bashrc projectdir   PWD      source    virtualenvs  projectdir bin activate

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Solution for WSL  Ubuntu on Windows   If you re using WSL  Ubuntu on Windows   you can also open bash as terminal in pycharm and activate a linux virtualenv   Use a  pycharmrc file like described in Peter Gibson s answer  Add the  pycharmrc file to your home directory with following content   source    bashrc source   path to virtualenv bin activate   In Pycharm File   Settings   Tools   Terminal add the following  Shell path     C  Windows system32 bash exe  -c  bash --rcfile    pycharmrc    Project specific virtualenv  The path to your virtualenv in  pycharmrc does not have to be absolute  You can set a project specific virtualenv by setting a relative path from your project directory  My virtualenv is always located in a  venv  folder under my project directory  so my  pycharmrc file looks like this    source    bashrc source   pycharmvenv bin activate  absolute path source   venv bin activate  relative path     BONUS  automatically open ssh tunnel to connect virtualenv as project interpreter  Add the following to your  pycharmrc file   if     ps -aux   grep -c  ssh   -lt 2    then     sudo service ssh start  fi   This checks if a ssh tunnel is already opened  and opens one otherwise  In File -  Settings -  Project -  Project Interpreter in Pycharm  add a new remote interpreter with following configuration    -------------------------- --------------------------------- ------- ----    Name                        lt Interpreter name gt                                Select                      SSH Credentials                                 Host                       127 0 0 1                         Port    22     User                        lt Linux username gt                                  Auth type                   Password                                        Password                    lt Linux password gt                                  Python interpreter path     lt Linux path to your virtualenv gt                   Python helpers path         lt Set automatically gt                              -------------------------- --------------------------------- ------- ----   Now when you open your project  your bash automatically starts in your virtualenv  opens a ssh tunnel  and pycharm connects the virtualenv as remote interpreter   warning  the last update in Windows automatically starts a SshBroker and SshProxy service on startup  These block the ssh tunnel from linux to windows  You can stop these services in Task Manager -  Services  after which everything will work again

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