subprocess.Popen: mkvirtualenv not found

Question

I\'m using virtualenvwrapper in my deployment. To setup new environments, I\'m running a python script, which contains all needed steps.

The setupscript includes:

Answer 1

mkvirtualenv might be a shell function that is added to your environment by sourcing virtualenvwrapper.sh script from your shell's startup file. The default command invoked on shell=True (e.g., /bin/sh -c ...) might not read it.

You could source the file explicitly:

import pipes
from subprocess import check_call

check_call("""source /path/to/virtualenvwrapper.sh &&
    mkvirtualenv --no-site-packages """ + pipes.quote(envname),
    executable='bash', shell=True)