virtualenv in PowerShell?

Question

Hi fellow pythonistas, there seems to be a problem when virtualenv is used in PowerShell.

When I try to activate my environment in PowerShell like..

> env

Answer 1

Update: The answer below is out of date. Now, just use activate.ps1 (rather than activate.bat) to activate from a Powershell environment.

Here's a post which contains a Powershell script which allows you to run batch files that persistently modify their environment variables. The script propagates any environment variable changes back to the calling PowerShell environment.