Virtualenv on Ubuntu with no site-packages

Question

I\'ve been using virtualenv lately while developing in python. I like the idea of a segregated development environment using the --no-site-packages option, but doing this wh

Answer 1

If you want to include the links to the relevant system's python gtk-2.0 in the virtualenv, you can just use pip to install ruamel.venvgtk:

pip install ruamel.venvgtk You don't have import anything, the links are setup during installation.

This is especially handy if you are using tox, in that case you only need to include the dependency (for tox):

deps:
    pytest
    ruamel.venvgtk

and a newly setup python2.7 environment will have the relevant links included before the tests are run.

More detailed information on how the links are setup can be found in this answer