Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: Pip installs to unexpected place
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:20:13 -0700
Organization: None to speak of
Lines: 24
Message-ID: <87lds22xnm.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com>
References: <CAApdmf2J69WgkR159sBSkxN0=mYoNmHZYboBmpPi+LdA-YBNpg@mail.gmail.com>
	<020e0ef5-3d53-4f9c-acb5-842a1a971b10@tompassin.net>
	<CAApdmf0+91Br19ZTa5sh0CLywWhD6wyL5Ou9118cF8D==edJBg@mail.gmail.com>
	<45c52b56-eb57-4d54-9f91-bee30280d16f@tompassin.net>
	<mailman.3.1744659206.3008.python-list@python.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Injection-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:20:14 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a2350407d780bb528cb106f4e5e26372";
	logging-data="2296845"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/Jzlm2ZdY0ZWMcWge4d0th"
User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:vLfAtVC5EyyOpDiMrcGOC4tIZUo=
	sha1:KOJAGcDZGgNF0VC/rplH9VsWAD8=
Bytes: 2084

Thomas Passin <list1@tompassin.net> writes:
[...]
> To activate a venv, you have to source its activate script, which is
> in the venv. First you have to mark it as executable.  Then you source
> it -
>
> source ~/venv/gf4/bin/activate
[...]

No, you don't have to (and probably shouldn't) mark the script as
executable.

Making a script executable (chmod +x) is required before *executing* it,
but when you *source* a script (using "source" or "."), your current
shell reads it and evaluates its content.

Making the active script executable introdues the risk that you'll
accidentally execute it rather than sourcing it.  If you do that, it
will probably set up the environment in a new shell process which then
immediately terminates.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */