Setting Up virtualenvwrapper on Mac OS X

The software virtualenvwrapper is a wrapper around virtualenv that has a lot of neat functions that allows the user to manage multiple virtual environments.  I decided to install the wrapper today.

First I ran the following:

$ pip install virtualenvwrapper

Then inside of the .bash_profile file inside of my home directory I added the following lines.

# virtualenvwrapper stuff
export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs
export PROJECT_HOME=$HOME/PyDevel

source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

Finally I sourced .bash_profile:

$ source ~/.bash_profile

Now I have a directory called .virtualenvs/ inside of my home directory.  Inside of my home directory, I create the 'PyDevel' directory.

Then I created my project's directory:

Christophers-MacBook-Pro-2:~ christopherspears$ mkproject scrapestat
New python executable in scrapestat/bin/python2.7
Also creating executable in scrapestat/bin/python
Installing Setuptools..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................done.
Installing Pip.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................done.
Creating /Users/christopherspears/PyDevel/scrapestat

Setting project for scrapestat to /Users/christopherspears/PyDevel/scrapestat