Issue with virtualenv - cannot activate

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I created a virtualenv around my project  but when I try to activate it I cannot  It might just be syntax or folder location  but I am stumped right now   You can see below  I create the virtualenv and call it venv  Everything looks good  then I try to activate it by running source venv bin activate  I m thinking it might just have to do with my system path  but not sure what to point it to  I do know how to edit the path   I m on python 7   windows os  virtual env 2 2 x   Processing dependencies for virtualenv Finished processing dependencies for virtualenv  c  testdjangoproj mysite virtualenv --no-site-packages venv The --no-site-packages flag is deprecated  it is now the default behavior  Using real prefix  C   Program Files  x86   Python  New python executable in venv Scripts python exe File venv Lib distutils distutils cfg exists with different content  not overwri ting Installing setuptools                 done  Installing pip                   done   c  testdjangoproj mysite source venv bin activate  source  is not recognized as an internal or external command  operable program or batch file   c  testdjangoproj mysite source venv bin activate  source  is not recognized as an internal or external command  operable program or batch file   c  testdjangoproj mysite source mysite bin activate  source  is not recognized as an internal or external command  operable program or batch file   c  testdjangoproj mysite

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If you   re using Windows  use the command  venv Scripts activate   without the word source  to activate the virtual environment  If you   re using PowerShell  you might need to capitalize Activate

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Tried several different commands until I came across  source venv Scripts activate  This did it for me   Setup  Win 10  python 3 7  gitbash   Gitbash might be the culprit for not playing nice with other activate commands

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I had the same problem  I was using Python 2  Windows 10 and Git Bash  Turns out in Git Bash you need to use    source venv Scripts activate

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If you are using windows  just run   Scripts activate  Mind that the backslash plays the trick

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For activation you can go to the venv your virtualenv directory by cd venv  Then on Windows  type dir  on unix  type ls    You will get 5 folders include  Lib  Scripts  tcl and 60  Now type   Scripts activate to activate your virtualenv venv    Your prompt will change to indicate that you are now operating within the virtual environment  It will look something like this  venv user host   venv    And your venv is activated now

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In Windows platform   you should use this command with path specified where you have installed a virtual environment        env Scripts activate    By this  You should be able to activate this on windows

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According to the documentation  Once a virtual environment has been created  it can be    activated    using a script in the virtual environment   s binary directory  The invocation of the script is platform-specific   must be replaced by the path of the directory containing the virtual environment    As it is platform-specific  use env Scripts activate for Windows and use env Scripts activate for Linux

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Open your powershell as admin Enter  quot Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Force Run  quot gpedit msc quot  and go to  gt Administrative Templates gt Windows Components gt Windows Powershell Look for  quot Activate scripts execution quot  and set it on  quot Activated quot  Set execution directive to  quot Allow All quot  Apply Refresh your env

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For me  I simply activate it with this command  pipenv shell

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If you see the 5 folders  Include Lib Scripts tcl pip-selfcheck  after using the virtualenv yourenvname command  change directory to Scripts folder in the cmd itself and simply use  activate  command

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If you are using windows OS then in Gitbash terminal use the following command  source venv Scripts activate  This will help you to enter the virtual environment

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I was also facing the same issue in my Windows 10 machine  What steps i tried were   Go to andconda terminal Step 1  pip3 install -U pip virtualenv   Step 2  virtualenv --system-site-packages -p python   venv   or   virtualenv --system-site-packages -p python3   venv   Step 3    venv Scripts activate   You can check it via spider tool in anaconda by typing import tensorflow as tf

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I have a hell of a time using virtualenv on windows with git bash  I usually end up specifying the python binary explicitly    If my environment is in say  env I ll call python via    env Scripts python exe      or in a shebang line      env Scripts python exe    Both assuming your working directory contains your virtualenv   env

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If wants to open virtual environment on Windows then just remember one thing on giving path use backwards slash not forward  This is right  D  xampp htdocs htmldemo python-virtual-environment gt env Scripts activate  This is wrong  D  xampp htdocs htmldemo python-virtual-environment gt env Scripts activate

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Open your project using VS code editor   Change the default shell in vs code terminal to git bash  now your project is open with bash console and right path  put   source venv Scripts activate  in Windows

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Ensure venv is there  and just follow the commands below  It works in Windows 10   Go to the path where you want your virtual enviroments to reside    gt  cd  lt my venv path gt    Create the virtual environment named  env     gt  python -m venv env    Add the path to the git ignore file  optional     gt  echo env   gt  gt   gitignore   Activate the virtual env    gt    env Scripts activate

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env Scripts activate worked for me on windows

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A small reminder  but I had my slashes the wrong way on Win10 cmd  According to python documentation the activate command is  C   gt   lt venv gt  Scripts activate bat When you re browsing directories it s e g  cd  env Scripts  So to create my venv I used python -m venv --copies  env and to activate  env Scripts activate bat

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For windows  type  C  Users Sid venv FirstProject Scripts activate  in the terminal without quotes  Simply give the location of your Scripts folder in your project  So  the command will be location of the Scripts Folder activate

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source command is officially for Unix operating systems family and you can t use it on windows basically  instead  you can use venv Scripts activate command to activate your virtual environment

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Similar to everyone but a bit simple  I just    lt path of a env gt  Scripts activate on PowerShell with Administrator right

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Navigate to your virtualenv folder eg    project1 env gt  Then type      source scripts activate   eg    project1 env gt source scripts activate

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location of bat file   C  Users gaojia Dropbox Projects free return venv Scripts activate bat     location of the cmd bat file and the ipython notebook   C  Users gaojia Dropbox Projects free return scripts pre analysis source       venv Scripts activate PAUSE jupyter nbconvert --to html --execute consumer response DID ipynb PAUSE  Above is my bat file through which I try to execute an ipython notebook  But the cmd window gives me nothing and shut down instantly  any suggestion why would this happen

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if you already cd your project type only in windows 10 Scripts activate  That works for me

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open the folder with any gitbash console   for example using visualCode and Gitbash console program  1 Install Gitbash for windows  2  using VisualCode IDE  right click over the project  open in terminal console option   3  on window console in Visualcode  looking for a Select- default shell and change it for Gitbash   4 now your project is open with bash console and right path  put source   Scripts activate  btw     with  blank space   source

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If some beginner  like me  has followed multiple Python tutorials now possible has multiple Python versions and or multiple versions of pip virtualenv pipenv      In that case  answers listed  while many correct  might not help    The first thing I would try in your place is uninstall and reinstall Python and go from there

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Incase you are using Anaconda   miniconda on windows - in your command prompt use conda activate  lt your-environmentname gt   e g  peopleanalytics is name of my virtual environment - Is say conda activate peopleanalytics

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source is a shell command designed for users running on Linux  or any Posix  but whatever  not Windows   On Windows  virtualenv creates a  bat  ps1 file  so you should run venv Scripts activate instead  per the virtualenv documentation on the activate script   Just run activate  without an extension  so the right file will get used regardless of whether you re using cmd exe or PowerShell

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You can run the source command on cygwin terminal

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The best way is  using backward slahes and using  bat at the end of activate C  Users gt your env name Scripts activate bat

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