How to make pipenv install virtual environment in project folder on Windows 10

Question

I want to fully understand how pipenv works. I created my project and would like virtual environment also be in same project folder. However pipenv installs virtual environment in C:\Users\username\.virtualenvs .

With that, if I change the name or location of my project path, the virtual environment will be lost.

So how can I install virtual environment inside project folder? I read about setting variable PIPENV_VENV_IN_PROJECT but I did not understand where and how should I do that using Powershell in windows.

Can somebody advise?

Answer 1

Create a.venv folder in your project root. Then run:

pipenv shell

Obviously run that from a terminal session in your project root. Pipenv should check to see if there is an empty.venv and if it finds one it should blow your virtual environment into that.

Answer 2

You should add PIPENV_VENV_IN_PROJECT=1 to the Windows 10 User variable

Check out this for step by step process link where I mentioned the process with images

if you can't open: https://gist.github.com/Saketh-Chandra/28ac93aca0afb8a627ef66edaf575b0d