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                Virtualenv's `bin/activate` is Doing It Wrong
              
          
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## virtualenv_execute.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding: utf-8

import os
import shlex
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE


def execute_in_virtualenv(virtualenv_name, commands):
    '''Execute Python code in a virtualenv, return its stdout and stderr.'''

## django_parallel_tests.py
from datetime import datetime

from django.test.runner import DiscoverRunner

class ParallelTestRunner(DiscoverRunner):
    """
    Uses a combination of hours, minutes and microseconds. This should avoid any db name conflicts and when
    Django creates the db, the name will abide by the MySQL 16 character limit.
    """
    settings.DATABASES[DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS]['NAME'] = datetime.utcnow().strftime('%H%M%f')
	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# coding: utf-8

	import os
	import shlex
	from subprocess import Popen, PIPE


	def execute_in_virtualenv(virtualenv_name, commands):
	'''Execute Python code in a virtualenv, return its stdout and stderr.'''
	from datetime import datetime

	from django.test.runner import DiscoverRunner

	class ParallelTestRunner(DiscoverRunner):
	"""
	Uses a combination of hours, minutes and microseconds. This should avoid any db name conflicts and when
	Django creates the db, the name will abide by the MySQL 16 character limit.
	"""
	settings.DATABASES[DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS]['NAME'] = datetime.utcnow().strftime('%H%M%f')