pipenv install/pipenv shell not working with Git Bash on Windows 10

Question

I am having a hard time getting the pipenv install and pipenv shell commands to work when using Git Bash for Windows 10. When using powershell, I am able to successfully create a new virtual environment and use pipenv shell to enter the environment, but when using bash, nothing happens and it just proceeds to go to a flashing prompt.

Bash recognizes other commands like pip list, but pipenv doesn't seem to be working for me. I am very new to all of this so I may be missing something obvious, but I have searched for this issue to the best of my ability and even went through the pipenv documentation.

My software versions are:

• Windows 10 Home 21H1
• git version 2.35.1
• bash version 4.4.23
• Python 3.10.2

Update: So I feel like an idiot, but am still left with a question. I have been fooling with this since yesterday and after posting, I remembered when I had installed a virtual environment using venv using the command 'python -m venv', so I tried running 'python -m pipenv install' and it worked. I also have to use 'python -m pipenv shell' to launch the shell.

Why do I have to do this? Every tutorial I've watched on setting up my environment and installing pipenv has just used pipenv install/shell.

Answer 1

I just got the same issue and I doubt it's an issue in pipenv .

I resolve this by uninstalling the latest version 2022.1.8 of pipenv and install the version of 2021.5.29 , which is a working version on my another PC.

In case you don't know how to do this:

pip uninstall pipenv
pip install pipenv==2021.5.29

Update: after downgrade to 2021.5.29 , and then upgrade to the latest version, it still works. Now I have no idea what is the root cause.