#🔒 Activate a Virtual Env when I'm in a folder

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worthy mountain
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Is there a way to automatically activate a venv when I'm in a certain folder? I'm using terminal mostly on Linux wsl.

typing source blah/blah seems tedious and I'm sure there's a better way

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worthy mountain
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My Py virtual environment is just created using python -m venv blahblah, if that matters.

grizzled creek
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there are lots of tools for this

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they all involve tweaking your shell's cd function

worthy mountain
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Is ther a 'meta' way to do it?

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Or are people working in python generally just activating their venv each time

grizzled creek
worthy mountain
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ah it's ok, i think ill just do it manually rather than go down a less trodden path

grizzled creek
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I tend to spend hours at a time working in a given virtualenv, so it's not a burden for me to activate it "manually"

worthy mountain
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that's fine! thanks for the tips.

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I'll just learn to activate it manually 😄

astral latch
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what OS are you on?

grizzled creek
worthy mountain
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W11, but using WSL into Ubuntu

grizzled creek
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My laptop is MacOS; my code runs (in docker) on Debian

worthy mountain
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Annoyingly I also have a similar workflow on MacOS 😂

astral latch
opaque wind
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There are also tools that don't activate a venv when you cd (you don't modify the cd), but rather have activate command that automatically cd to the project 😄

I've used virtualenvwrapper in the past. It generally stored venvs in a single central location instead of inside project folder... But had an option to link a path of the project to cd automatically or via a command.

astral latch
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pyenv has something that actually does this.

grizzled creek
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and then of course there's poetry shell or uv shell

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