On 2016-03-07, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Jon Ribbens ><jon+use...@unequivocal.co.uk> wrote: >> I must say that Python on Windows was a very poor experience indeed, >> "virtualenv" does not work and "venv" refuses to create the 'activate' >> shell script so does not work either > > I've used both of these on Windows (although not recently) and had no > trouble with them. I never had a problem with venv not creating the > activate.bat file.
It's not activate.bat, it's activate (no file extension) the posix shell script. I installed Git for Windows which provides bash (or something that looks like it). Python venv doesn't cope with this situation at all. 'virtualenv' works even less well, it just says: $ virtualenv test Using base prefix 'd:\\program files (x86)\\python35-32' New python executable in D:\Users\Jon Ribbens\Documents\Python\test\Scripts\python.exe ERROR: The executable "D:\Users\Jon Ribbens\Documents\Python\test\Scripts\python.exe" could not be run: [WinError 5] Access is denied -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
