Quick script to create venv with patched pip version on Python 3.6 on Windows

venv_init.sh

#!/bin/bash

# This is a handy script to apply a pip fix to the venv created by python 3.6 on Windows
# Written by Mike Goodfellow in a few minutes - feel free to improve this!!
# Based on information in https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/3964
#
# NOTE: Currently works if python on path points to python3 which is commonly
#       does on Windows.

if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
	echo "Usage: venv_init /path/to/venv"
	exit 1
fi

echo "Creating new venv in $1..."

# NOTE: This needs to be on the path...
python -m venv $1

echo "Applying the pip fix..."

rm -rf $1/Lib/site-packages/pip*

$1/Scripts/easy_install pip

$1/Scripts/pip install --upgrade pip setuptools

echo "Patched version of venv has been configured in $1"