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How to set PIPENV_IGNORE_VIRTUALENVS=1?

While trying to create a venv for a django project while beeing in the projects dir using pipenv, I noticed that after installing django with pipenv (pipenv install django), pipenv sent a message:

Courtesy Notice: Pipenv found itself running within a virtual environment, so it will automatically use that environment, instead of creating its own for any project. You can set PIPENV_IGNORE_VIRTUALENVS=1 to force pipenv to ignore that environment and create its own instead. You can set PIPENV_VERBOSITY=-1 to suppress this warning.
Creating a Pipfile for this project...
Installing django...
[=   ]  Installing django...[packages]...
Installation Succeeded
Pipfile.lock not found, creating...
Locking [packages] dependencies...
           Building requirements...
Resolving dependencies...
Success!
Locking [dev-packages] dependencies...
Updated Pipfile.lock (99c4b9ec1b8891ff787677276760beb6d6d4919c55660da1c713682156a6086c)!
Installing dependencies from Pipfile.lock (a6086c)...
To activate this project's virtualenv, run pipenv shell.
Alternatively, run a command inside the virtualenv with pipenv run.

After this I ran the command (pipenv --venv) and got this message:

Courtesy Notice: Pipenv found itself running within a virtual environment, so it will automatically use that environment, instead of creating its own for any project. You can set PIPENV_IGNORE_VIRTUALENVS=1 to force pipenv to ignore that environment and create its own instead. You can set PIPENV_VERBOSITY=-1 to suppress this warning.
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I knew from the start that all my vscode projects were using the VSCode venv, however for this project I needed to make a new venv becaushe of the requirements of installing and running django.

How do I set PIPENV_IGNORE_VIRTUALENVS=1 to force pipenv to create a new venv? Where and how do I need to set PIPENV_IGNORE_VIRTUALENVS=1?

Solution

  • Your question is equivalent to, how do I set persistent environment variables on Windows? Or, how do I set environment variables to be used by VS Code specifically? I encourage you to use those searches to learn more.

    In this case, I believe you can do

    setx PIPENV_IGNORE_VIRTUALENVS 1

    For VS Code + Python, there is also the setting

    "python.envFile": "${workspaceFolder}/.env"

    So you can create/append to an .env file in your workspace root directory that contains

    PIPENV_IGNORE_VIRTUALENVS=1