Issue with virtualenv - cannot activate
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>
Answer
source is a shell command designed for users running on Linux (or any Posix, but whatever, not Windows).
On Windows, virtualenv creates a batch file, so you should run venv\Scripts\activate instead (per the virtualenv documentation on the activate script).
Edit: The trick here for Windows is not specifying the BAT extension:
PS C:\DEV\aProject\env\Scripts> & .\activate
(env) PS C:\DEV\aProject\env\Scripts>