Activate virtualenv via os.system()

Question

I\'m writing a Python-based shell script to boilerplate a Django app with virtualenv, pip, and fabric. Should be straightforward enough, but it appears that I\'m not able to

Answer 1

Each call to os.system runs the command in a new subshell, which has the same properties as the original python process.

Try putting the commands into one string separated by semicolons.