PyCharm - venv is not getting activated

Question

I am learning Python and Django and want to activate the virtual environment from the PyCharm community edition 2019.3

I can see the venv created under my folder but when I try and activate it using the command

source venv/bin/activate

There's an error -

'source' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

I already tried checking the project interpreter and it seems to point to the right path. Below is the screenshot

I have checked the below link as well - How do I activate a virtualenv inside PyCharm's terminal? and tried changing the terminal option, but somehow I am not getting rid of this error -

Can someone please help here?

Thanks, Sanket

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 06 '20 at 05:47

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If you are on windows, please use below to activate.

venv\scripts\activate

answered Apr 06 '20 at 05:47

Mayur Patel

Hey Mayur, thanks for your reply! I am on windows, in the folder, I can see 3 activate files, .file, .bat, and .ps1. Which one should I use? Should I just open it or run through any command in PyCharm? – Sanket Kelkar Apr 06 '20 at 05:56
You should run activate.bat – akazuko Apr 06 '20 at 06:03
Run the command `venv\scripts\activate` from pycharm terminal. But as I can see in your screenshot, it's already activated as pycharm automatically do that. – Mayur Patel Apr 06 '20 at 06:09

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 06 '20 at 05:59

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Pycharm automatically activates the virtual environment fo your project, see the (venv) in Pycharm terminal before the folder information.

answered Apr 06 '20 at 05:59

jcaliz

Yes, you are right. It was already activated and it is now running fine. Thanks! – Sanket Kelkar Apr 06 '20 at 09:46

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