My virtualenv and virtualenv wrapper cheat sheet. I alias the commands of virtualenv and virtualenv wrapper for my own development environment.

venv_cheat_sheet.md

Ben's VirtualEnv Cheatsheet

This cheat sheet describes my usage/implementation of virtualenv with virtualenv wrapper and the bash foo that I added with the help of many blogs to make it all tick together in fun land.

Quick Reference

$ echo $WORKON_HOME
/Users/benjamin/.virtualenvs

$ echo $PROJECT_HOME
/Users/benjamin/Repos/git/

Commands

All of the commands below are to be used on the Terminal Command line.

venv

List or change working virutal environments (alias workon)

venv [environment_name]

venv.exit

Switch from the virtual environment back to system Python (alias deactivate)

venv.exit

venv.ls

List all of the environments (alias lsvirtualenv)

venv.ls [-b] [-l] [-h]

-b Brief mode, disables verbose output -l Long mode, verbose output, default -h Print help

venv.show

Show the details for a single virtualenv

venv.show [env]

venv.init

Create a new environment in the WORKON_HOME (alias mkvirtualenv)

venv.init ENVNAME
venv.init [-a project_path] [-i package] [-r requirements.txt] [virtualenv opts] ENVNAME

venv.rm

Remove an environment in the WORKON_HOME (alias rmvirtualenv). Note that you must be deactivated before you can remove the current environment.

venv.rm ENVNAME

venv.switch

A semantic alias for venv (e.g. workon) to faciliate switching to other virtual environments.

venv.switch ENVNAME

venv.add

Adds the specified directories to the Python path for the currently active virutal environment (alias add2virtualenv). Useful for providing non-pip packages or local development packages into the enivronment without messing with .pth files.

venv.add dirpath dirpath ..

venv.cd

Changes the current working directory to the one specified as the project directory for the active virtual env (alias cdproject). Note that you must have the project specified.

venv.cd

venv.cdsp

Changes the current working directory to the site-packages directory of the current virtual environment (alias cdsitepackages).

venv.cdsp [subpackage]

venv.cdenv

Changes the current working directory to the directory of the current virtual environmment (alias cdvirtualenv).

venv.cdenv [subdir]

venv.lssp

Lists the contents of the site-packages directory in the current active virtual environment (alias lssitepackages).

venv.lssp

venv.proj

Create a new virtualenv and a new project directory in associated HOME directories (alias mkproject).

venv.proj [-f|--force] [-t template] [virtualenv opts] ENVNAME

venv.setproj

Bind an existing virtualenv to an existing project (alias setvirtualenvproject)

venv.setproj [virtualenv_path project_path]

An association is made so thtat when venv activtes the virtualenv the project is also activated.

Note that if no arguments are provided, the current virtualenv and the current working directory are assumed.

venv.wipe

Remove all of the installed third-party packages in the current virtualenv (alias wipeenv).

venv.wipe

Dependencies

In order to make this happen you need to install the following:

• pip
• virtualenv
• virtualenvwrapper

Appendix: .bash_profile

# virtualenv
export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs
export PROJECT_HOME=$HOME/Repos/git/
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

alias venv="workon"
alias venv.exit="deactivate"
alias venv.ls="lsvirtualenv"
alias venv.show="showvirtualenv"
alias venv.init="mkvirtualenv"
alias venv.rm="rmvirtualenv"
alias venv.switch="workon"
alias venv.add="add2virtualenv"
alias venv.cd="cdproject"
alias venv.cdsp="cdsitepackages"
alias venv.cdenv="cdvirtualenv"
alias venv.lssp="lssitepackages"
alias venv.proj="mkproject"
alias venv.setproj="setvirtualenvproject"
alias venv.wipe="wipeenv"