Additional functionality

[artgoldberg]

virtualenv-api is quite useful. Thanks.

I presume it's possible to use a VirtualEnvironment() from the Python that created the VirtualEnvironment(). The code would look like this, for example:

env = VirtualEnvironment('/path/to/environment/name')
env.install('package_foo')
# modify sys.path to use env
# now import in env's context
import bar
# perhaps modify sys.path to stop using env

If so, these two methods would be helpful:

env.activate()      # modify sys.path so that imports occur in env's context
env.deactivate()    # undo env.activate()

Thanks, Arthur

[sjkingo]

Thanks Arthur!

We've looked at this idea before and I've thought it's definitely worth including - have just never got around to implementing it.

Do you have capacity to implement those new methods and associated tests?