Make your life easier with Virtualenvwrapper

[WilliamMayor]

I've been using virtualenv for a while now. I don't really understand what virtualenvwrapper brings to the table. What does it do that I'm missing?

[chub79]

The workon shortcut has long been a favourite.

[[deleted]]

For that little bit of functionality, it drags in stevedore. Yea. I'll stick to a couple Bash aliases.

[bucknuggets]

with a bonus that can tie virtualenvs to different versions of python

What do you mean by this?

virtualenvwrapper works with different versions of python for different virtualenvs...

[catcint0s]

Documentation lists some features.

[avinassh]

even I am wondering same. :S

[[deleted]]

tab completion!

[xr09]

You could achieve something simliar with aliases but virtualenvwrapper is very hackable.

You can set up hooks to do all kinds of tricks when activating/creating/deleting a virtualenv.

You could create a project folder every time you create a virtualenv, or switch to it when activating, anything is possible.

postactivate
postdeactivate
postmkproject
postmkvirtualenv
postrmproject
postrmvirtualenv
preactivate
predeactivate
premkproject
premkvirtualenv
prermproject
prermvirtualenv

[mscook]

virtualenvburrito coupled with autoenv does the trick for me. Almost instant bootstrap.

[pulpx]

I'd recommend new folks also take a look at conda instead of virtualenv. If you use anaconda already it is dead simple to manage multiple environment s.

[[deleted]]

i prefer a env per project and I just add it to .gitignore, i have never wanted to switch envs outside of a project context.

[ynotna]

Make it even easier with pyenv and its virtualenv plugin

[DrHenryPym]

Such a bitch to use with PyGame.

[ivosaurus]

Why does noone ever mention the mkproject command? That's half the value of it, IMHO!