saucy

saucy is a helper tool for finding Python virtual environments.

Motivation

Tired of writing:

user@server:~/important_project/> . env/bin/activate
(env) user@server:~/important_project/> .

all the time? Wouldn't it be easier if you didn't have to type env/bin/activate all the time?

Example

In comes saucy. To install saucy, run:

cargo install saucy

When you run saucy in a directory, it will print out the activate script of the first Python virtual environment it finds. For example:

user@server:~/important_project/> saucy
/home/user/important_project/env/bin/activate

Thus instead of having to type . env/bin/activate, you could just type:

user@server:~/important_project/> . $(saucy)
(env) user@server:~/important_project/> 

But even that feels like too much typing. Instead, insert the following line (or something similar) into your .bash_aliases file:

alias sa=". $(saucy)$"

Now it's as easy as:

user@server:~/important_project/> sa
(env) user@server:~/important_project/> 

Enjoy!

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) at your option.