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Re: Eshell and Python venv

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Rust Buckett <rsstinnett@pm.me> writes:

> Is there a way to activate a Python virtual environment in Eshell?  When
> I try `source ./.venv/bin/activate`, I get "Wrong type argument: listp,
> "["".  Obviously, this is because `source` is built into the shell
> (bash, csh, fish, eshell, etc.) and the default activate is for bash.
> So, I guess the real question is if there is already a script to
> activate the venv in eshell?  Or some other way to do it?

If you read "./.venv/bin/activate", you'll see that what it do mostly is
setting VIRTUAL_ENV to "./venv" and add "$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin" to your PATH
to access the "correct" python.

So doing the following should work:
   export VIRTUAL_ENV="/absolute/path/to/venv"
   export PATH="$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin":$PATH

But maybe you could come up with an elisp function to more easily
activate (and deactivate) those.
-- 
Manuel Giraud

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Eshell and Python venv Rust Buckett <rsstinnett@pm.me> - 2026-01-10 23:00 -0500
  Re: Eshell and Python venv Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr> - 2026-01-11 12:48 +0100
    Re: Eshell and Python venv Rust Buckett <rsstinnett@pm.me> - 2026-01-11 07:05 -0500

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