On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Bill Freeman <ke1g...@gmail.com> wrote: > Because the incantation is ". activate", not "./activate". "." is a > shell command > a.k.a. source, which reads the file and executes it in the current shell. It > is > not a command to run as a sub-process. >
As Bill says, . is the shortcut/original name of the 'source' command. You want to run the contents of activate in the current shell (it sets some environment variables). I always type it as '. ./activate' out of habit :/ Cheers Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.