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venv-project

The venv-project resource handles the creation (and also the destruction) of Python virtual environments in a directory. This resource differs from virtualenv-project in that it uses the native Python python -m venv instead of relying on the third party virtualenv tool. This resource will not activate virtual environments for you. That will need be done separately using source .<dest>/bin/activate where <dest> is the name of the dest directory.

Parameters:

  • envDir: (string, required) A directory to create the environment in. If cwd is specified then this value is a relative path to cwd.

  • systemSitePackages: (boolean) Give the virtual environment access to the system site-packages dir.

  • symlinks: (boolean) Try to use symlinks rather than copies, when symlinks are not the default for the platform.

  • copies: (boolean) Delete the contents of the environment directory if it already exists, before environment creation.

  • clear: (boolean) Try to use symlinks rather than copies (default: true).

  • upgrade: (boolean) Upgrade the environment directory to use this version of Python, assuming Python has been upgraded in-place.

  • withoutPip: (boolean) Skips installing or upgrading pip in the virtual environment (pip is bootstrapped by default).

  • prompt: (string) Provides an alternative prompt prefix for this environment.

  • upgradeDeps: (boolean) Upgrade core dependencies: pip setuptools to the latest version in PyPI.

  • cwd: (string): The cwd to create virtualenv from. This allows a relative path to be used for dest. Also, the directory automaticallyInstallRequirementsTxt will attempt to install from.

  • automaticallyInstallRequirementsTxt: (boolean) If an requirements.txt is available in the cwd, automatically install it when a virtual env is first created.

Example usage:

codify.json
[
  {
    "type": "venv-project",
    "dest": ".venv",
    "cwd": "~/Projects/example-project2",
    "automaticallyInstallRequirementsTxt": true
  }
]

In this example, we initialize a virtual environment in the project located at ~/Projects/example-project2. The virtual environment itself is located in the .venv folder and uses the global python3 version.

codify.json
[
  {
    "type":  "pyenv",
    "global": "3.12",
    "nodeVersions": [
      "3.12"
    ]
  },
  {
    "type": "git-repository",
    "directory": "~/Projects/example-project2",
    "repository": "[email protected]:daniel-dqsdatalabs/python-template.git"
  },
  {
    "type": "virtualenv-project",
    "dest": ".venv",
    "cwd": "~/Projects/example-project2",
    "automaticallyInstallRequirementsTxt": true,
    "dependsOn": ["git-repository"]
  }
]

In this example, we use the git-repository resource to first clone a python project from Github. We then use the venv-project resources to setup Python in a virtual environment and install the dependencies listed in requirements.txt