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

Just don't use "source activate" at all. It does nothing but alter your shell PATH to put the virtualenv's bin directory first. I presume your script knows the directory of the virtualenv it has just created; all you have to do is call _virtualenv_dir_/bin/easy_install by full path. Or _virtualenv_dir_/bin/python for running any other python script within the virtualenv.