deactivate conflict in virtualenvwapper and anaconda

Question

I\'m using virtualenv to switch my python dev env. But when I run workon my_env, I meet such error message:

Error: deactivate must be sourced. R         


        

Answer 1

As I do not have enough reputations to add a comment: Thomas Capote's suggestion is fine (thx 4 that), except "zsh" does not have a "-t" option for the build-in command "type". Therefore its necessary to add another conditional statement to get desired result for "nametype":

# Anaconda workaround for "source deactivate" message:
# Start of workaround:
#type deactivate >/dev/null 2>&1
#if [ $? -eq 0 ]
if [ -n $ZSH_VERSION ] ; then
    nametype="$(type -w deactivate)"
else
    nametype="$(type -t deactivate)"
fi
if [ "${nametype##* }" == "function" ]
# End of workaround

Hope it helps other zsh users.