Re: Pip installs to unexpected place

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> writes:

On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:55:09 -0400, Thomas Passin wrote:

Pip doesn't know about the environment it runs in. It seems to me that
you didn't active the venv before you installed using pip. So nothing
would have gotten installed into the venv. So where is the venv that you
set up? I usually put them into ~/venv. For example, a venv named "gf4"
is at ~/venv/gf4.

>
Are you sure about that?

Sure about what?

                         activate has
>
>
VIRTUAL_ENV="/home/rbowman/work/python/weather"
export VIRTUAL_ENV

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The activate script is created when you create the venv (using something
like `python3 -m venv /path/to/new/venv`), and it's customized with the
location of the venv.

If Thomas creates a venv in ~/venv/gf4, that's what will appear in his
venv's active script (with the ~ expanded to the path of his home
directory).

(I'm relatively new at this.  Please let me know if I've gotten any of
the details wrong.)

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