Tool to create isolated Python environment
Project description
This tool creates an environment that is isolated from the rest of the Python installation, eliminating site-packages and any other source of modules, so that only the modules (and versions) you install into the environment will be available. This allows for isolated and controlled environments, as well as reproduceability.
To use workingenv just download the script and run it (installation of this package with easy_install is not recommended).
The basic usage is:
python workingenv.py MyNewEnvironment source MyNewEnvironment/bin/activate
After sourcing bin/activate any commands (like python setup.py install, etc) will install into the new environment. A Windows activate.bat file is also generated for that environment. Scripts like bin/easy_install will be tied to the environment, and so they will automatically install into the environment even without activation.
The workingenv.py script has other options, like --home (necessary when using this with Zope), --requirements (for starting the environment with a specific set of packages) and others.
Changes
0.5: Fix the self-activation of scripts.
0.4: Fix the interaction of the --site-packages option (that brings in the global site-packages/ directory) and a global installation of setuptools. If you get an error like “site.py is not a setuptools-generated site.py; please remove it” you should upgrade and regenerate your workingenv.
0.3: Support for Setuptools 0.6c5
