On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:20:13 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote: > Making the active script executable introdues the risk that you'll > accidentally execute it rather than sourcing it. If you do that, it > will probably set up the environment in a new shell process which then > immediately terminates.
The 'activate' script starts with # This file must be used with "source bin/activate" *from bash* # You cannot run it directly The csh and fish variants have similar warnings. I don't have a Windows box up at the moment but iirc activate.bat or Activate.ps1 is in the Scripts subdirectory and you do run it directly. On Linux the python in bin is usually a symlink, although you can specify it to be copied with a parameter to venv. Symlinks on Windows are problematic but the process is more or less the same. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
