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Re: Pip installs to unexpected place

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject	Re: Pip installs to unexpected place
Date	2025-04-15 01:12 +0000
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On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:20:13 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:

> Making the active script executable introdues the risk that you'll
> accidentally execute it rather than sourcing it.  If you do that, it
> will probably set up the environment in a new shell process which then
> immediately terminates.

The 'activate' script starts with

# This file must be used with "source bin/activate" *from bash*
# You cannot run it directly

The csh and fish variants have similar warnings. I don't have a Windows 
box up at the moment but iirc  activate.bat or Activate.ps1 is in the 
Scripts subdirectory and you do run it directly. On Linux the python in 
bin is usually a symlink, although you can specify it to be copied with a 
parameter to venv.  Symlinks on Windows are problematic but the process is 
more or less the same.

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Re: Pip installs to unexpected place Thomas Passin <list1@tompassin.net> - 2025-04-14 09:55 -0400
  Re: Pip installs to unexpected place rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-14 21:56 +0000
    Re: Pip installs to unexpected place Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-04-14 15:31 -0700
  Re: Pip installs to unexpected place Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-04-14 15:20 -0700
    Re: Pip installs to unexpected place rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-15 01:12 +0000
    Re: Pip installs to unexpected place Thomas Passin <list1@tompassin.net> - 2025-04-14 23:11 -0400
    Re: Pip installs to unexpected place Thomas Passin <list1@tompassin.net> - 2025-04-14 21:51 -0400

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