The particular error that you are running into comes from Singular not being in PATH.
Use "sage -sh" to enter a shell in which SAGE_LOCAL/bin has been added to PATH. Then you can activate the venv as you did before. On Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 10:45:00 AM UTC-8 m.derick...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi All, > > I am wondering what the best way is to create a new virtual environment > where I can import stuff from an already existing sage installation: > > I tried the following using sage 9.5.beta9 > > $ sage -python3 -m venv --system-site-packages venv > $ source venv/bin/activate > (venv) $ python3 > Python 3.9.9 (main, Dec 25 2021, 18:25:51) > [GCC 9.3.0] on linux > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> from sage.all import * > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > File > "/scratch/home/mderickx/sages/sage/local/var/lib/sage/venv-python3.9.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/sage/all.py", > > line 126, in <module> > from sage.rings.all import * > File > "/scratch/home/mderickx/sages/sage/local/var/lib/sage/venv-python3.9.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/sage/rings/all.py", > > line 87, in <module> > ... > ... > File "sage/rings/polynomial/multi_polynomial_libsingular.pyx", line 1, in > init sage.rings.polynomial.multi_polynomial_libsingular > (build/cythonized/sage/rings/polynomial/multi_polynomial_libsingular.cpp:50020) > > > File "sage/libs/singular/singular.pyx", line 1558, in init > sage.libs.singular.singular > (build/cythonized/sage/libs/singular/singular.cpp:15747) > File "sage/libs/singular/singular.pyx", line 1525, in > sage.libs.singular.singular.init_libsingular > (build/cythonized/sage/libs/singular/singular.cpp:12865) > File > "/scratch/home/mderickx/sages/sage/local/var/lib/sage/venv-python3.9.9/lib/python3.9/posixpath.py", > > line 152, in dirname > p = os.fspath(p) > TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType > > But as you can see this new venv is not created in such a way that sage > the library is useable (probably because certain sage related environment > variables are not set). > > So what is the best way to get around this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/f3a37677-442c-4953-aa06-e2dda8118c4cn%40googlegroups.com.