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

Perhaps this is a recent change, but for me, when I installed nosetests through pip, there was a nosetests executable installed in .virtualenvs/<env>/bin, which (unsurprisingly) operates correctly with the virtualenv.

Answer 2

In the same situation I needed to reload the virtualenv for the path to be correctly updated:

deactivate
env/bin/activate