How to schedule a python script to run from virtual environment via task scheduler

Question

I stumbled on an answer for basically the exact same question, but either I am implementing the solution wrong, the solution is no longer accurate, or some other issue is at play.

Run a python script in virtual environment from windows task scheduler

I used the code from above link, edited for my directories, and copied directly into the task scheduler program/script prompt.

C:\Users\I511843\myenv\activate.bat && python C:\Users\I511843\Desktop\Atom_scripts\test.py

I then set the program to run every time I unlocked the machine. The program simply writes a text file called test.txt containing the text "success!"

The text file populates in the correct directory when I run from the command line, however, the program doe snot execute from the task scheduler.

Answer 1

Did you try putting the commands in a batch file and executing the batch file from task scheduler? Something like below:

C:\\Users\\I511843\\myenv\\activate.bat && python C:\\Users\\I511843\\Desktop\\Atom_scripts\\test.py goes into task.bat file.

In task scheduler, run task.bat from cmd.