Get virtualenv's bin folder path from script

Question

I\'m using virtualenvwrapper with a django project that has a management task that automatically writes some config files, so the user just has to

./manage.p         


        

Answer 1

The VIRTUAL_ENV environment variable is only available if the virtual environment is activated.

For instance:

$ python3 -m venv myapp
$ source myapp/bin/activate
(myapp) $ python  -c "import os; print(os.environ['VIRTUAL_ENV'])"
/path/to/virtualenv/myapp

If not activated, you have an exception:

(myapp) $ deactivate
$ myapp/bin/python -c "import os; print(os.environ['VIRTUAL_ENV'])"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/os.py", line 635, in __getitem__
    raise KeyError(key) from None
KeyError: 'VIRTUAL_ENV'

IMO, you should use sys.executable to get the path of your Python executable, and then build the path to celery:

import sys
import os

celery_name = {'linux': 'celery', 'win32': 'celery.exe'}[sys.platform]
celery_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(sys.executable), celery_name)

Answer 2

You can use fabric to do such things from python

>>> from fabric.api import local
>>> local('which celery')

Answer 3

The path to the virtual env is in the environment variable VIRTUAL_ENV

echo $VIRTUAL_ENV