So I made a small little command-line utility for myself just for practice, but I had a hard time figuring out how to actually turn it into something I can just use on the command line with no fuss. It uses a virtual environment as Python packages should, so it needs to be run in that environment and I was having trouble figuring out how to do it.
But then I remembered that pipx runs application in a virtual environment, and after checking the docs, I found out that it allows installing local packages by just pointing install
at the package directory. So I did, and after setting up the command name as a project script that points to main
it ended up working.
I haven’t ever heard of anyone doing something like this for a personal program though. Is something like this a bad idea? Is it over engineering or error prone? Is there another way that most people do something like this?
Perfect use case.
pipx
is awesome for Python! Glad you found a great easy solution.Nope.
pipx
is like a big guard rail to keep you from doing error prone things with system Python.In these examples we’ll assume your venv is at
/home/TrueBlue/project/venv
#!/home/TrueBlue/project/venv python3
Now you can just run your Python file and it’ll use the correct Python runtime.
poetry
can be useful for running personal projects usingpoetry run
.e.g. I want to use a new command named
sdf
to call my app.alias sdf="/home/TrueBlue/project/venv/bin/python3 my_app.py"
Great ideas! You can also set top of script to be:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
That way it will work with environment Python. Runs against venv, as well.