problems creating virtual environments with pipenv

Question

I am new using pipenv and I would like to know why every time I create a virtual environment, the environment saves me with my username and not with the name of my project folder.

Steps:

cd project-01/
project-01> pipenv --three
ls .local/share/virtualenvs/
result: username-nQve7NT7

and it always sets me /home/username/ as the path of my project. I'm using Xubuntu 18.04.4 with Python 3.6.9 and pipenv 2018.11.26

Thanks.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 23 '20 at 17:24

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I'd recommend you to take a look at this post

How to rename a virtualenv in Python?

hope it helps.

answered May 23 '20 at 17:24

Leonardo Guerreiro

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@adejonghm did it help? Please mark as anwser so the topic can be closed – Leonardo Guerreiro Aug 17 '20 at 14:09

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 03 '22 at 05:47

I had this same problem and found that my issue was that there was a Pipfile and Pipfile.lock in my user directory.

I must have mistakenly run pipenv shell there at some point, and while I may have removed the environment folder, the Pipfiles remained.

I imagine pipenv must look up the file tree for a Pipfile and, if it finds one, assumes that is the project root. Removing the Pipfiles fixed the problem for me.

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