Activate venv (Python 3.7.2) for Windows

Question

I can't activate the venv on my new project (new to Python too),

If I do python --version: Python 3.7.2

I created the venv using ' $ python -m venv ./venv ' in my editor (vs code).

and now to activate is where I have a problem,

Attempt 1:

$ ./venv/Scripts/activate.bat

error : 'C:\Users\name' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
The system cannot find the path specified.

My user name is formatted from 2 names "name & name" with space between them! Is that a problem? It just show first name and not the second.

Attempt 2:

$ C:\Users/name & name/Desktop/ProjectFolder/venv/Scripts/activate.bat

error: 
[1] 15160
bash: C:Users/name: No such file or directory
bash: name/Desktop/ProjectFolder/venv/Scripts/activate.bat: No such file or directory
[1]+  Exit 127                C:\Users/name

Is this in WSL? If so why are you trying to execute the batch files? — meowgoesthedog, Jan 22 '19 at 16:29

Justin · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-22T16:36:45.240

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Try using the terminal to navigate to the folder that contains your virtual environment using the change directory (cd) command. Once there, try typing:

source ./venv/Scripts/activate

Also, try opening the venv folder and make sure your activate file is in the 'Scripts' folder and not the 'bin' folder. When I create a virtual environment, I use:

source ./venv/bin/activate

edited Jan 22 '19 at 16:36

answered Jan 22 '19 at 16:32

Justin

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$ source ./venv/Scripts/activate.bat bash: @echo: command not found bash: rem: command not found bash: ./venv/Scripts/activate.bat: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `"tokens=2 delims=:"' bash: ./venv/Scripts/activate.bat: line 4: `for /f "tokens=2 delims=:" %%a in ('"%SystemRoot%\System32\chcp.com"') do ( this is the error i have – TextError Jan 22 '19 at 16:35
Are you in the directory where your venv folder is in your terminal (i.e. the folder that holds your venv folder)? Try removing .bat also – Justin Jan 22 '19 at 16:37
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its in Scripts ... i open the activate file and on top is # This file must be used with "source bin/activate" *from bash* – TextError Jan 22 '19 at 16:38
yes i`m in the dir inside terminal....i did w/ .bat , this is the error : $ source ./Scripts/activate bash: ./Scripts/activate: No such file or directory – TextError Jan 22 '19 at 16:40
Try to cd all the way into the Scripts folder where your activate file is and type `source activate`. Does that work? Make sure not to use the '.bat' extension. – Justin Jan 22 '19 at 16:42
cd venv/ , cd Scripts/ : $ source activate(venv) i think its working.$ python --version Python 3.7.2 (venv) but (venv) is not in front of the name but that is ok i gues – TextError Jan 22 '19 at 16:46
`source ./venv/Scripts/activate` (not `source ./venv/Scripts/activate.bat`) works for me in git bash on a Windows 10 machine. – L.Wu Jul 25 '19 at 02:34
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source is definitely not windows... – Hansang Oct 11 '21 at 11:54
source neither works in cmd nor in powershell – Soumyajit Mar 22 '23 at 18:56

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 17 '20 at 14:58

Try C:/Users/name & name/Desktop/ProjectFolder/venv/Scripts/activate.bat. Note the exclamation marks and backslash file separator changed to forward slash.

Another way is:

C:/Users/name\ &\ name/Desktop/ProjectFolder/venv/Scripts/activate.bat

Note the \ as escape character and backslash file separator changed to forward slash.

And as another option, you can go to directory:

cd 'C:/Users/name & name/Desktop/ProjectFolder/venv/Scripts'

and than run activate.bat from directory.

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