Problems using nose in a virtualenv

Question

I am unable to use nose (nosetests) in a virtualenv project - it can\'t seem to find the packages installed in the virtualenv environment.

The odd thing is that i ca

Answer 1

You need to have a copy of nose installed in the virtual environment. In order to force installation of nose into the virtualenv, even though it is already installed in the global site-packages, run pip install with the -I flag:

(env1)$ pip install nose -I

From then on you can just run nosetests as usual.