Can I move a virtualenv?

Question

This question is not a duplicate.

It pertains not just to renaming a virtual environment, but to actually moving it to a different directory, incl

Answer 1

Using answers of this and other threads about similar topic, I've made a bash script that, located and executed within the virtualenv directory itself, will help with your virtualenv moves.

After doing virtualenv --relocatable yourenv you'll need to change your VIRTUAL_ENV variable every time you move the directory, so if you don't wan't to change it manually, use this.

#!/bin/bash \n 
DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd )"
EXISTING=$(grep 'VIRTUAL_ENV=' bin/activate)  
NEWDIR=VIRTUAL_ENV=\"$DIR\"
sed -i -e "s|$EXISTING|$NEWDIR|" bin/activate
source bin/activate

I hope it helps.