"""Activate virtualenv for current interpreter: Use exec(open(this_file).read(), {'__file__': this_file}). This can be used when you must use an existing Python interpreter, not the virtualenv bin/python. """ import os import site import sys try: __file__ except NameError: raise AssertionError("You must use exec(open(this_file).read(), {'__file__': this_file}))") # prepend bin to PATH (this file is inside the bin directory) bin_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) os.environ["PATH"] = os.pathsep.join([bin_dir] + os.environ.get("PATH", "").split(os.pathsep)) base = os.path.dirname(bin_dir) # virtual env is right above bin directory os.environ["VIRTUAL_ENV"] = base # add the virtual environments site-package to the host python import mechanism IS_PYPY = hasattr(sys, "pypy_version_info") IS_JYTHON = sys.platform.startswith("java") if IS_JYTHON: site_packages = os.path.join(base, "Lib", "site-packages") elif IS_PYPY: site_packages = os.path.join(base, "site-packages") else: IS_WIN = sys.platform == "win32" if IS_WIN: site_packages = os.path.join(base, "Lib", "site-packages") else: site_packages = os.path.join(base, "lib", "python{}".format(sys.version[:3]), "site-packages") prev = set(sys.path) site.addsitedir(site_packages) sys.real_prefix = sys.prefix sys.prefix = base # Move the added items to the front of the path, in place new = list(sys.path) sys.path[:] = [i for i in new if i not in prev] + [i for i in new if i in prev]