Make Pipenv create the virtualenv in the same folder

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I want Pipenv to make virtual environment in the same folder with my project (Django).

I searched and found the PIPENV_VENV_IN_PROJECT option but I don't know where and how to use this.

What did you hope that `PIPENV_DOTENV_LOCATION` would do? It does *not* have anything to do with the location of the virtualenv that Pipenv creates. — Martijn Pieters, Sep 27 '18 at 15:11
@MartijnPieters sorry i edit it i mean `PIPENV_VENV_IN_PROJECT` — DAMAR225, Sep 27 '18 at 15:14

Martijn Pieters · Accepted Answer · 2022-10-07T11:14:12.777

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PIPENV_VENV_IN_PROJECT is an environment variable, just set it (the value doesn't matter, but must not be empty). Make sure to export it so child processes of the shell can see it:

export PIPENV_VENV_IN_PROJECT=1

This causes the virtualenv to be created in the .venv directory next to the Pipfile file. Use unset PIPENV_VENV_IN_PROJECT to remove the option again.

You may want to see if the direnv project can be useful here. It'll set environment variables for you, automatically, when you enter your project directory, provided you created a .envrc file in the project directory and enabled the directory with direnv allow. You then can add any such export commands to that file.

edited Oct 07 '22 at 11:14

answered Sep 27 '18 at 15:18

Martijn Pieters

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thanks for your replay , how can i set this environment variable ? i'm using ubuntu 18.04 server running on vps hosting ? sorry i'm a very newbie with ubuntu stuff – DAMAR225 Sep 27 '18 at 15:39
@DAMAR225: I gave you the syntax for a bash shell environment, just use that when you have a terminal open where you are executing the Pipenv commands. – Martijn Pieters Sep 27 '18 at 15:49
So what command should I run if I am using windows powershell? Thank you – Serdia Apr 19 '20 at 18:12
@Serdia: no idea, sorry, not a Windows user. – Martijn Pieters Apr 20 '20 at 20:30
Note, that if you install from a requirements.txt with `-r` you should first create the empty Pipfile, so that pipenv knows, next to where it should put .venv – Eike Sep 21 '22 at 12:57
@Eike: then why use pipenv at all? Just use `virtualenv .venv` to create the virtual env yourself. – Martijn Pieters Oct 07 '22 at 11:15

DAMAR225 · Answer 2 · 2022-08-22T05:43:14.390

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This maybe helps someone else. I found another easy way to solve this!

Just make an empty folder inside your project and name it .venv and pipenv will use this folder.

edited Aug 22 '22 at 05:43

answered Feb 14 '20 at 22:45

DAMAR225

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I felt this is simplest answer and its working like charm!!! – Karth Aug 12 '20 at 09:00
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this is the very simple solution as of my opinion. – dinith jayabodhi Jul 25 '21 at 02:48
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I prefer this solution as it: (a) doesn't involve messing with environment variables; (b) applies only to the project I am currently working on. – Jakub Holan Mar 02 '23 at 20:00

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 17 '19 at 01:39

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Try

PIPENV_VENV_IN_PROJECT=1 pipenv sync -d

answered Aug 17 '19 at 01:39

Weilao

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PIPENV_VERBOSITY=-1 PIPENV_VENV_IN_PROJECT=1 pipenv install --python 3.8.7 would give you a specific python version as well. Sync did not work for me. – Liquidgenius Jun 08 '21 at 21:05

Vinoj John Hosan · Answer 4 · 2023-02-14T14:59:01.700

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In Three simple steps:

export the variable as

export PIPENV_VENV_IN_PROJECT=1
Create a empty folder and file Pipfile

mkdir .venv

touch Pipfile
Then execute

pipenv shell

edited Feb 14 '23 at 14:59

answered Jan 23 '23 at 09:49

Vinoj John Hosan

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i skipped right to step 2 and that worked for me – Tony S Mar 22 '23 at 13:49

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 12 '19 at 20:51

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For the fish shell, use:

set -Ux PIPENV_VENV_IN_PROJECT 1

answered Jul 12 '19 at 20:51

Gringo Suave

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score 3 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 02 '21 at 23:53

For posterity's sake, if you find pipenv is not creating a virtual environment in the proper location, you may have an erroneous Pipfile somewhere, confusing the pipenv shell call - in which case I would delete it form path locations that are not explicitly linked to a repository.

score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Oct 25 '22 at 14:32

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This trick worked for me:

create an empty folder named .venv
create an empty file named Pipfile
Run pipenv shell there.

answered Oct 25 '22 at 14:32

Abhi Ranjan

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Thanks, this worked for me. to add, made sure to run >exit to exit the wrong virtual environment and then made sure to delete the wrong .venv Followed your first 2 steps Ran this instead: PIPENV_VENV_IN_PROJECT=true pipenv install --dev pipenv shell – yasbars Jul 10 '23 at 13:16

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