Python package installed globally, but not in a virtualenv (PyGTK)

Question

I\'m having some strange issues with PyGTK in \"virtualenv\". gtk does not import in my virtualenv, while it does import in my global python install. (I wasn\'t having this

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.