how to run python script in ansible playbook using virtual enviroment?

Question

I'm trying run python script test.py using a virtual environment. in standard Linux bash it simply looks like

source venv/bin/activate
screen -dm  python3 test.py

But how I can do the same using ansible-playbook?

Answer 1

When you create a virtual environment in python, a 'python3' interpreter is added in the 'bin' folder of the virtual environment (venv/bin/python3). This interpreter has all the dependencies/packages that you've installed using pip for the project.

So, if you want to execute a script using this interpreter, you can provide the complete path to the interpreter.

Example: Consider the python file: test.py Name of virtual environment: venv Command to execute the script: venv/bin/python3 test.py