VirtualEnv Host Package Link

version number: 1.0.0 author: Mike C. Fletcher

Overview

Links Host's Python Library into Virtualenv

This allows you to link a hard-to-compile package into your virtualenv. Common case is the python-gobject-introspection library, which is not easily pip installable.

Installation / Usage

To install use pip:

$ pip install venvhpl

Or clone the repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/mcfletch/venvhpl.git
$ python setup.py install

Linking a package from the host python into your current virtualenv:

$ source path/to/myenv/bin/activate
(myenv) $ venv-hpl gi

Loading the gi module from a module such that if the initial gi import fails we shell out to run venv-hpl then re-import:

try:
    import gi
except ImportError:
    try:
        import subprocess

        subprocess.check_call(['venv-hpl', 'gi'])
    except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
        raise ImportError("gi")
    else:
        import gi

Contributing

This is a trivial project, but if you find something that needs fixing, please open a pull request.