A devops guy on my team has written a "devops-cli" tool in Python, using the Click package. It works just fine but requires users to manually activate a virtualenv before using it. Open up a new tab and try to call a command and you get an error. It works, but it's just annoying. He's offered up a tool called direnv which when configured will activate / deactivate venvs when you cd into a directory that requires one. But per the Click documentation, it seems as if we should be able to use the CLI tool without manually, or programmatically, activating a venv first. Could someone more familiar with Click, or Python based CLIs, offer insight into this? I've used Python CLIs before and never had to manually activate a venv first. Continue reading...
