Virtualenv keeps loading global site packages on Windows

Question

I\'ve looked around on SO, and the answers I have found to my problem haven\'t allowed me to solve it yet.

I want to use isolated virtualenv environments, but for one re

Answer 1

A little bit of extra .bat hackery can easily fix this. My standard additions to activate.bat are:

REM custom venv settings
set PYTHONPATH=%\VIRTUAL_ENV%;%\VIRTUAL_ENV%\conf;%\VIRTUAL_ENV%\apps
set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=settings

ftype Python.File=%VIRTUAL_ENV%\Scripts\python.exe %1 %*

and to deactivate.bat

REM restore ftype
ftype Python.File=C:\tools\Python27\python.exe %1 %*

Answer 2

I had the same "Access denied" problems as Dan with m0nonoke's answer on my Windows 7 setup using cmd.exe.

But I found this work around using a replacement shell TCC/LE and a customised startup file...

Under working directory create subdirectory config. In this directory create startup file for TCC/LE called tcstart.btm

@echo off
rem Override system python binding to handle virtualenvironments
set .py;.pyc=python.exe

Now create (copy) TCC/LE shortcut on desktop and rename it appropriately. Open Properties for shortcut and add to Target “C:\django\config\tcstart.btm”. You probably want to set Start in to something useful, like C:\django

Solution found in this guide on installing Django and Windows.

Answer 3

You could make a .bat file and modify PATH and PYTHONPATH in there, and then run .py from that .bat file. Something like this i think

set PATH=C:\Python26; python myfile.py

Ofcourse, add anything else to your path that you want.