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neves
neves

Reputation: 39343

Create virtualenv in existing directory without creating a "local" directory

I'm trying something simple. I clone a repository and then I want to create a virtualenv in it:

hg clone ssh://[email protected]/neves/repo site
virtualenv site

When I run the command to create a Python virtualenv in an exiting project, a directory named local is created. All the contents of the "site" dir are copied to this local dir. I don't want this behaviour. Am I doing something wrong? How do I create a virtualenv without creating this local dir?

I'm using virtualenv 1.10.1

Upvotes: 29

Views: 35440

Answers (2)

Andy K
Andy K

Reputation: 5054

Not sure if it is still helpful, but you can do this.

virtualenv .

Install was fine with me.

Upvotes: 59

jhermann
jhermann

Reputation: 2101

This just happens on some platforms (like Ubuntu) and is necessary because a virtualenv imitates the machine's installation, and local is part of that. Just add it to your SCM's ignore facility (e.g. .gitignore).

Upvotes: 4

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