Python installs packages into my current directory even though I have setup virtualenv

Question

I've installed pip and virtualenv (with sudo) and I've created my first python app using cookiecutter . I've also run virtualenv my_app followed by source ~/virt/bin/activate .

But when I cd to my app, cd /vagrant and run python setup.py test I see the eggs and packages I need are all downloaded into my app, ie the current directory.

I was sort of expecting them to go into ~/virt/

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

The path should be ./my_app/bin/activate. With the above you are looking for a virtualenv named virt in your home directory, which is likely not what you want.

Assuming that you created an application called my_app in your home directory you would need to call source ~/my_app/bin/activate in order to create it

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