Re: [IBMiOSS] Do worry - Python newbie calling

Hi Korinne and Jack,

Thanks a lot for your replies, I've been reading up on virtual environments and get it working using a workaround described below:

Created a path: /Projects/Python/Excel
1. Python –m –venv vpenv –system-site-packages

A folder structure named vpenv was created below the Excel folder containing 107 directories with 863 files.
2. Then I tried to activate this virtual environment by:

# pwd
/Projects/Python/Excel
# /Projects/Python/Excel/vpenv/bin/activate
/Projects/Python/Excel/vpenv/bin/activate: syntax error at line 44: `VIRTUAL_ENV=$' unexpected
#

By qualifying the pip command to the vpenv folder it successfully installed XlsxWriter

3.
# /projects/Python/Excel/vpenv/bin/pip install xlsxwriter
Collecting xlsxwriter
Downloading XlsxWriter-3.2.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.8 kB)
Downloading XlsxWriter-3.2.2-py3-none-any.whl (165 kB)
Installing collected packages: xlsxwriter
Successfully installed xlsxwriter-3.2.2


Is there anything I should have done differently to be able to "activate" the virtual environment?

Best regards

Stefan