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MuziSihlongonyane

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Help with Pipenv

I want to start my first Django project using python in VSCode. I've gathered that I need to create a virtual environment, and I'm trying to use pipenv for this. I've installed Pipenv correctly, but when I run "pipenv shell" it gives me an error, syntax error: "invalid syntax". Why is this happening? How can I solve it?

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Suhail •

Ensure you choose the right pip environment (if you are having multiple versions of python running on your system) at the time of installing pipenv.

Run pipenv --help to see if pipenv is working otherwise.

PS: giving the entire snip of the error that you are getting from the terminal prompt would be helpful.

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MuziSihlongonyane •

I've recently re-installed python, and deleted the old versions I had.

When running 'pipenv --help' I get

'''

NameError Traceback (most recent call last)
in
----> 1 help(pip)

NameError: name 'pip' is not defined

'''

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Corentin Bettiol •

It's better to launch it through Python itself, aka run python3 -m pipenv install and python3 -m pipenv shell :)

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MuziSihlongonyane •

Fixed it. Thank you for the help👌

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vinmay •

What fixed the issue?

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MuziSihlongonyane •

Beginner mistake. Installing python via Anaconda is not the same as installing python. I just installed python independently😅

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vinmay •

Ah ok !

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vinmay •

Have you created the virtual environment using something like 'python -m venv .venv' ?

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MuziSihlongonyane •

No I haven't. Should I?

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Corentin Bettiol •

It's using python3 venv package, which is used by pipenv :)
The command creates the virtualenv, and then you need to activate it with . .venv/bon/activate

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Baptiste Darthenay •

You might want to use Poetry instead.

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MuziSihlongonyane •

Does Poetry work the same?