Shell script invoking python code to be run in a virtualenv from Crontab

Question

I need to run a python script from a virtual environment. This will be run from s shell script which in turn will be called from Crontab scheduler.

I am not able to activate the environment when the shell script is called from Crontab

Answer 1

I'm not sure about this, but try and put this in a shell script:

cd ~/<path>
source <env>/bin/activate
python <script>.py

Answer 2

Activate your virtualenv to identify the interpreter path:

workon myVenv1
which python
/home/www-user/virtualenvs/myVenv1/bin/python

So the cronjob should look like this:

* * * * * /home/www-user/virtualenvs/myVenv1/bin/python <full_path_to_script>