Pipenv incorrectly creating Pipfile in user's home directory

Question

I want to make a project and virtualenv in /users/me/my-project In the past, when I've done this I:

1. cd into the project folder, here my-project
2. run pipenv shell to create do the setup and start interactive session
3. run pipenv install to install the packages I want.

In the past, this has worked fine - the pipfile exists in the project director and virtualenv is mapped correctly. For some reason, now it is making the Pipfile in the parent directory, /users/me/. I've also tried doing pipenv in a sub directory in my project, and it still creates it in the home directory as before.

What did I do wrong?

Answer 1

I had the same problem, and I found it was because that I had run the command:

pipenv shell

under my home dir some day before.

You can solve it like this:

1. cd to your home dir
2. delete the Pipfile
3. delete the Pipfile.lock