I have two different python virtual environment systems, one is anaconda and the other is virtualenv. (I need to keep both to suit different develop environment).
I installed separate ipython for each virtual env. The problem is that ipython seems to be virtual environment aware, it will automatically load libs from $VIRTUAL_ENV.
For example, here are my two different virtual environments
- venv, created by- virtualenv:- virtualenv /home/<user>/venv. And I set- $VIRTUAL_ENVby adding- export VIRTUAL_ENV='/home/shao/venv'in- .bashrc. Also I installed some required package in this environment by- pip
- p2, created by- anaconda:- conda create -n p2 python=2.
The $PATH after activating p2 is:
(p2) shao@T420s:~$ echo $PATH
/home/shao/anaconda3/envs/p2/bin:/home/shao/anaconda3/bin:/home...
I am definitely sure that ipython binaray is at /home/shao/anaconda3/envs/p2/bin. 
However, the ipython sys.path for p2 is:
(p2) shao@T420s:~$ ipython
/home/shao/anaconda3/envs/p2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py:724: UserWarning: Attempting to work in a virtualenv. If you encounter problems, please install IPython inside the virtualenv.
  warn("Attempting to work in a virtualenv. If you encounter problems, please "
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In [1]: import sys
In [2]: sys.path
Out[2]: 
['/home/shao/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas-0.18.1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg',
 '/home/shao/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tika-1.13.1-py2.7.egg',
 '/home/shao/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/superlance-0.11-py2.7.egg',
 '/home/shao/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pytz-2016.6.1-py2.7.egg',
 ...
 '/home/shao/venv,
 '/home/shao/anaconda3/envs/p2/bin',
 '/home/shao/anaconda3/envs/p2/lib/python27.zip',
 ...
 '/home/shao/.ipython']
As you can see, ipython interpreter gives me warnings and the sys.path contains libs from venv, which are prior libs from p2.
After some google searches, I noticed that recent ipython version is virtual environment aware, so that it will automatically load these libs from venv.
I noticed two things:
- python interpreter of p2will not be affected byvenv
- If I RESET $VIRTUAL_ENV, ipython interpreter ofp2will not be affected byvenv.
Now the question is that is there any graceful way (keep $VIRTUAL_ENV)  to disable ipython's initialization behavior, so that $VIRTUAL_ENV libs will not be loaded?
Thanks.
 
    