virtualenv-bin 0.9.0

Set of bash scripts that make bins installed in virtualenvs useful elsewhere.

Tools to install into a python virtualenv to make life easier. If you install virtualenv-bin into a virtualenv, you will get two useful programs.

venvbin

If you symlink to this program where it sits in a virtualenv and name the symlink for any program in the bin folder, executing the symlink will activate the virtualenv and then run the program, passing through all args and exit codes.

venvsymlink

Running this from a bin directory will automatically symlink all bins from that virtualenv into your bin folder using venvbin

example

I want to install and use httpie, but I don’t want any of it’s dependencies interfering with my broader environment. Note: for this example, I use /opt/virtualenvs for all virtualenvs.

$ mkvirtualenv httpie
$ source /opt/virtualenvs/httpie/bin/activate
$ pip install --upgrade httpie
$ pip install virtualenv-bin
$ cd ~/bin
$ /opt/virtualenvs/httpie/bin/venvsymlinks
$ ~/bin/http --help

installation

You can install virtualenv-bin using pip:

$ pip install --upgrade virtualenv-bin