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.