如何在Cron作业的共享主机上使用Python虚拟环境？

Question

Sorry if my question sounds dumb.

So I am following A2Hosting guide to use Python 2.7. Now I want to use Python2.7 for Cronjob purpose. How can I use Virtual Environment for Cronjob? Is there a way to keep virtual environment active all the time or I need to make some Bash script to activate virtual environment first and then run python command?

Answer 1

activate your virtual environment:

source ./VIRTUAL_ENV_NAME/bin/activate

or if you are using virtual env wrapper:

workon VIRTUAL_ENV_NAME

now you can get your path to python in virtual env by executing:

which python

when you get absolute path to python you can call your script from cron using your virtual env:

/path/to/python /path/to/your/script.py