virtualenv¶
Custom Virtual Environment Location¶
Pipenv automatically honors the WORKON_HOME
environment variable, if you
have it set — so you can tell pipenv to store your virtual environments
wherever you want, e.g.:
export WORKON_HOME=~/.venvs
In addition, you can also have Pipenv stick the virtualenv in project/.venv
by setting the PIPENV_VENV_IN_PROJECT
environment variable.
Virtual Environment Name¶
The virtualenv name created by Pipenv may be different from what you were expecting.
Dangerous characters (i.e. $
!*@”` as well as space, line feed, carriage return,
and tab) are converted to underscores. Additionally, the full path to the current
folder is encoded into a “slug value” and appended to ensure the virtualenv name
is unique.
Pipenv supports a arbitrary custom name for the virtual environment set at PIPENV_CUSTOM_VENV_NAME
.
The logical place to specify this would be in a user’s .env
file in the root of the project, which gets loaded by pipenv when it is invoked.