Virtualenv Auto Activate / Deactivate for PowerShell

What is this?

• Automatically activate and deactivate python virtualenv for PowerShell users.
  • When you enter into the python project's top folder with venv, .venv or .env folder, this script will automatically activate it.
  • When you go outside of the project folder, this will automatically deactivate it.

Update History

• v1.1

  • Added support for automatically activating venv in an ancestor folder when jumping directly into a deep subfolder of a project from outside.

• v1.0

  • Initial Release

Install

• Place the virtualenv-auto-activate.ps1 file anywhere you like.
• Add below into the PowerShell's profile file ($profile).
  • Don't miss the first . and the white space.

. "<ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO>\virtualenv-auto-activate.ps1"

• Hint.
  • The $profile file may be in the path below, I think. (You can know it by just typing $profile in your PowerShell)
    • [PS 5] C:\Users\<USER_NAME>\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1
    • [PS 7] C:\Users\<USER_NAME>\Documents\PowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1

Uninstall

• Delete virtualenv-auto-activate.ps1 file, and remove the line you write into your $profile.

Advanced

• If you want to use some other name for the virtualenv folder than venv, .venv or .env, change $VENV_NAMES definition in the virtualenv-auto-activate.ps1 at line 3 (or thereabouts).