Geany - Activate Python Virtualenv

flebber · 02-01-2014, 11:48 PM

Hi

What my goal is, is to have geany editor activate a virtualenv for my currently active file or project.

For the most part this should be easy using build commands. However geany uses the bourne shell which i have never used and bourne doesn't understand 'source bin/activate'. sSource is not a command.

Ok so in geany my command is

Code:

/bin/sh  -c "%p" /bin/activate; python %f

and my directory %p. %p represents my project directory, in this case ~/Projects/Test.
My virtualenv is located within ~/Projects/Test/bin/activate

So here's the catch now when I run this I get permission denied

Code:

/bin/sh  -c "/home/sayth/Projects/Test" /bin/activate; python file1.py (in directory: /home/sayth/Projects/Test)
/bin/activate: 1: /bin/activate: /home/sayth/Projects/Test: Permission denied
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "file1.py", line 3, in <module>
    import django
ImportError: No module named django
Compilation failed.

So i went to /bin/sh and did

Code:

sudo chmod a+x /bin/sh

but this doesn't resolve the error.

Any ideas on how to get the bourne shell to allow me to activate my venv?

rigor · 02-02-2014, 02:08 AM

Hi,

I'm not quite sure why you're talking about source as the equivalent in the Bourne shell is . like so:

Code:

. exec_this_in_my_current_environment

or exactly how your trying to do what you are trying to do. But if you're going to use the -c option to the Bourne shell, you're not dealing with lists in some contexts as you might with the C Shell. If you are trying to execute bin/activate from beneath /home/sayth/Projects/Test and the bin directory within /home/sayth/Projects/Test is not in your PATH value, then you need to execute:

Code:

/home/sayth/Projects/Test/bin/activate

with no spaces in the command path, but you have appear to have a space between the two tokens in what you've shown us.

flebber · 02-03-2014, 05:03 AM

yeah it finds bin/activate ok, but the whole issue is that I cannot do a

Code:

source bin/activate

because its the bourne shell. Would work fine in bash but geany doesn't use that.