Where to define the postactivate hook with virtualenvwrapper-win?

Question

I'm using virtualenvwrapper-win and want to use the postactivate hook of virtualenvwrapper to set environment variables. However it seems virtualenvwrapper-win doesn't include a postactivate file, and I haven't been able to get it to work by creating my own. Does anybody know how to get the postactivate hook to work with virtualenvwrapper-win?

I want to include this in postactivate to set an environment variable: SET APP_SETTINGS="example.setting"

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Answer 1

I actually solved it myself. You can put any environment variables in the activate.bat file in the Scripts folder of your virtualenv.

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A problem might be that the moment you deactivate the environment, if you do not clean up those variables, they will remain in the parent session/console. In short they will leak outside of the environment. So probably an "unset" command must should be placed in deactivate.bat. – Sarto

Answer 2

If you have already defined your VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_HOOK_DIR variable, just add this line to workon.bat.

call "%VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_HOOK_DIR%\postactivate.bat"

Just make sure you put it above :END

Polly