I have created a virtual environment in python in ubuntu in Raspberry Pi with:
python -m venv ./venv/myname
That gives me folderstructure:
myFolder
+-- venv
+-- myApplication.py
Im activating my virtualenvironment running:
source venv/myname/bin/activate
What I dont understand is when I am running
python myApplication.py
I can run the application using python packages installed globally but not in my virtual environment. For example I can import numpy
without having it installed in my virtual environment but globaly. I thought I needed to install everything within my virtual environment no matter if I have it globally or not. Do I misunderstand something here?
Im using python 3.7
This is my output from print(sys.path)
>>> import sys
>>> print(sys.path)
['', '/usr/lib/python37.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.7', '/usr/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload', '/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages', '/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages', '/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/Adafruit_PCA9685-1.0.1-py3.7.egg', '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages']
>>>
UPDATE
The virtual environment seems to be running after all with testing it with os.environ['VIRTUAL_ENV']
. Weird enough I can run packages I have not installed in my virtual environment. Here is output from my terminal:
(myenv) pi@raspberrypi:~/Desktop/myproject/myenv$ python
Python 3.7.3 (default, Jan 22 2021, 20:04:44)
[GCC 8.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> os.environ['VIRTUAL_ENV']
'/home/pi/Desktop/myproject/myenv'
>>> exit()
(myenv) pi@raspberrypi:~/Desktop/myproject/myenv$ deactivate
pi@raspberrypi:~/Desktop/myproject/myenv$ pythonPython 3.7.3 (default, Jan 22 2021, 20:04:44)
[GCC 8.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> os.environ['VIRTUAL_ENV']
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/os.py", line 678, in __getitem__
raise KeyError(key) from None
KeyError: 'VIRTUAL_ENV'
>>>