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In the Python world the various virtual environment tools use different environment variables to define setting like the base directory of all virtual environments.
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Environment variables pointing to the location of Python virtual environments.md

Environment variables pointing to the location of virtual environments

In the Python world the various virtual environment tools use different environment variables to define setting like the base directory of all virtual environments. Here a table listing them:

variable used by source
VIRTUALENV_HOME xonsh/vox xonsh doco
WORKON_HOME Virtualenvwrapper Virtualenvwrapper doco
WORKON_HOME Pew Pew doco
WORKON_HOME Pipenv Pipenv doco uses under the hood Pew
PIPENV_VENV_IN_PROJECT Pipenv Pipenv doco boolean to create venvs in current directory
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