Consider using pew to activate virtual environments

I’ve been using it via the pew package, which fills roughly the same niche as virtualenvwrapper, but using the inve approach. My own experience finds it vastly superior to the script-sourcing approach. Explained simply, it starts a subshell instead of changing the current shell. That means de-activating an environment is as simple as the standard exit command in your shell.

https://gist.github.com/datagrok/2199506 https://github.com/berdario/pew

[kennethreitz]

i tried using pew, but pew workon does not work on my machine for some reason

[ryanhiebert]

That’s cool, it’s a different model, and it may not be worth the time Right Now.

I’d like to point out, for possible future reference, that the inve model doesn’t require using pew, though. inve was originally designed as an activate replacement, that would live in the same place, but open a subshell instead. That concept can be really helpful. pew thought so, and made a virtualenvwrapper alternative built on it, and I think it works excellently.