Google App Engine and Virtualenv (Python 2.7)

gae_venv.md

Lets download SDK to /tmp. I assume that Virtualenv is already installed.

1. Unpack

unzip /tmp/google_appengine_<VERSION>.zip -d /usr/local

2. Create Virtualenv

virtualenv ~/demo

3. Add path

printf '/usr/local/google_appengine \nimport dev_appserver; dev_appserver.fix_sys_path()' > ~/demo/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gae.pth

4. Activate Virtualenv

. ~/demo/bin/activate

5. Validate

python -c "import yaml;print yaml.__path__"

6. This should print this

['/usr/local/google_appengine/lib/yaml-<VERSION>/yaml']