How do I transfer a Python virtual environment to another user?

Question

Currently, I created a virutal environment in my

• /home/myuser/my_virtual_env/

How do I copy this entire thing to another user? (and perhaps rename it to thatuser_virtual_env) ? I have to copy all the python packages, and eveyrthing.

Answer 1

The 'official' method is to create virtualenv this way: virtualenv --relocatable ENV. Check the 'Making Environments Relocatable' section here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv

But I think the way to go is not to copy the environment (that's quite error prone) but to script the environment creation. You can auto-generate a pip requirements file using pip freeze command and then tweak it manually.