Deactivate a pipenv environment

Question

How can I deactivate my pipenv environment?

With other tools I've been able to do something like source deactivate, but that has no affect here.

Create an environment:

pipenv --three 

Activate the environment:

source $(pipenv --venv)/bin/activate 

But how to deactivate?

Answer 1

To elaborate on Williams' answer a bit more, the expected workflow is to enter the virtualenv using pipenv shell. When you activate the virtualenv that way, the console output now indicates to use exit:

Spawning environment shell (/bin/zsh). Use 'exit' to leave.

Trying to exit the virtualenv with deactivate will leave pipenv in a confused state because you will still be in that spawned shell instance but not in an activated virtualenv.

Answer 2

Using the shell command exit also works.

This worked for me when using deactivate still left me with the error:

Shell for UNKNOWN_VIRTUAL_ENVIRONMENT already activated. No action taken to avoid nested environments. 

After using exit I could successfully switch pipenv instances. This could well be a bug and I should probably report it.