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

You could also install virtualenvwrapper, and use the postmkvirtualenv hook. I use it to automatically bring in fresh copies of pip and IPython into virtualenvs I create (as I don't want it using my system IPython). I also use it to copy pythonw into the virtualenv, otherwise wx-based stuff won't work. Looks like this:

easy_install pip
pip install -I ipython
cd ~/bin
python install_pythonw.py ${VIRTUAL_ENV}