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Jul 4, 2018
Activating virtual environment in Python
for a whole day, I have been trying to activate a virtual environment on windows PowerShell, I followed all the steps in the tutorial I am following, but I keep getting an error.
please does anyone know why I keep getting this error
Mark
formerly known as M
According to the link in the error message, it is because of a Windows setting that prevents running scripts.
It seems you can get the policies with with
Get-ExecutionPolicy -Listand you can set it using
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy UnrestrictedThis affects more than just virtualenv, so you may want to be sure you want to do this.
Execution policy is not strictly a security policy since it's easy to get around, but it does help prevent mistakes. You're not less safe against virusses or hackers, but you are less safe against inexperienced users.
P.s. I haven't tried on Windows, but I like
pewmore than the standard virtualenv wrapper.