venv_manager: Manage your python virtual environments without any effort. Literally.

Have multiple python virtual environments and find it annoying to manage them? Ever install PyPI packages into the wrong environment or otherwise make modifications you meant to make to some other environment? Then this plugin is for you!

This plugin helps you create and change/activate/deactivate python virtual environments depending on your current path. It searches through each parent in the working directory for the folder $VENV_DIR, and activates the closest one, or deactivates the active venv if you have left its context.

Installation

• oh-my-zsh: clone into custom/plugins in your oh-my-zsh folder, and add venv_manager to the list of plugins in your .zshrc.
• otherwise, clone anywhere, source it from your shell rc.

This makes the command venv_manager_switch_venv available to use.

Add the following to your shell rc for automatic switching:

# zsh
precmd() {
  venv_manager_switch_venv
}

# or
autoload -Uz add-zsh-hook
add-zsh-hook chpwd venv_manager_switch_venv

# bash
export PROMPT_COMMAND=venv_manager_switch_venv

You can configure $VENV_DIR, which defaults to .venv

Usage

Try it out! Simply cd in and out of folders that have virtual environments!

History

21 March, 2017: created repository.

05 September, 2024: several updates now that I'm a more mature, grounded individual.

Credits

Authored by Purajit Malalur

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) [2017] [Purajit Malalur]

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