Why do you need to set the WORKON_HOME environment variable?
问题 I haven't used my python/virtual environments in a while, but I do have virtualenvironment wrapper installed also. My question is, in the doc page it says to do this: export WORKON_HOME=~/Envs $ mkdir -p $WORKON_HOME $ source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh $ mkvirtualenv env1 I simply did this at my prompt: source /usr/local/bin/virutalenvwrapper.sh And now I can list and select an environment by doing: >workon >workon envtest1 My question is, since this works for me, I'm confused why I