Create a post activate script in Conda [duplicate]

Question

I'm creating a Django web app and using Conda to manage the required packages and virtual environment. I want to set an environmental variable (the Django settings location) as soon as I activate the environment. It should also change the current directory to my project directory.

I previously used virtualenvwrapper and I just added the commands to the postactivate script.

How can I achieve this using Conda?

Answer 1

That feature has been available since conda v3.8 (after this question was asked). Any *.sh files placed in ${CONDA_PREFIX}/etc/conda/activate.d/ will be sourced when the environment is activated.

Docs: https://conda.io/docs/user-guide/tasks/manage-environments.html#saving-environment-variables

Also explained here: https://groups.google.com/a/continuum.io/d/msg/anaconda/sQJQ7DBwpfI/pP4_Esbl6VYJ