How to Activate a Python Virtual Environment Automatically on Login?

Question

I have a Python virtual environment named venv in the user home directory. I would like to activate this virtual environment on login. I don't want to type source venv/bin/activate each time after login. I want to type python something.py and have it always use the virtual environment.

How can I do this in the user's login scripts?

The user is only ever going to do python development in this particular virtual environment.

Answer 1

There might be better ways of doing this but the simplest way I can think of is modifying .bashrc file if you are using an OS Like Ubuntu. In your .bashrc file you can add a line to start your virtual environment. An example could be adding the following to the bottom of your .bashrc file:

source myvenv/bin/activate