Create a venv

% activate  # there's also an alias: a8

Congrats, you've created a virtual environment and activated it for your current shell!

Tip

Like all zpy commands, it can alternatively be invoked as a subcommand:

% zpy activate

The project folder remains empty, with the venv tucked away at a location determined by a hash of the absolute path of the project. The home for all of these (~/.local/share/venvs) may be overridden by setting the environment variable ZPY_VENVS_HOME or XDG_DATA_HOME.

If you want to access it as ./.venv (e.g. for another tool to easily find), run:

[venv] % ln -s $VIRTUAL_ENV .venv

There's a bit more to activate if you need it; like all zpy commands, it's documented via a --help flag as well as what aims to be thorough tab completion assistance.

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% # These are all equivalent:
% activate --help
% zpy activate --help
% zpy help activate

# Activate the venv for the current folder or specified project, if it exists.
# Otherwise create, activate, sync.
# Pass -i to interactively choose the project.
# Pass --py to use another interpreter and named venv.
activate [--py pypy|current] [-i|<proj-dir>]

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