无法从 IDE 外部使用在 Pycharm 中创建的虚拟环境

Question

I am running Pycharm 2019.3 on Linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I have created a virtual environment for my Pycharm project from within the IDE. I am able to access the packages from the virtual environment when I run programs from within the IDE. However, if I activate the virtual environment created from within Pycharm from the terminal (using source venv/bin/activate, resulting in the (venv) prefix on the command line), the packages I added to the virtual environment can no longer be found. Why is this? The (venv) prefix makes me think that I have successfully activated the virtual environment. What can I do to use this virtual environment outside of Pycharm?

Answer 1

I think this is because pycharm has created a virtual environment in a different location. I think you can check both the locations with echo $VIRTUAL_ENV and check if they are the same.