Search_Venvs

Search all available Python Virtual environments under a specific given directory location.

Python Version

python 3.7+

Packages Required

• No extra packages required, all built-in python modules are used
  • os
  • time
  • timeit
  • multiprocessing

Run The program

• python detect_venv.py

[x] Inputs:

• Enter the number of parallel searches you want to do

  • Example, Search inside, Desktop, Documents,and Music Folders at the same time (used multiprocessing pool)

• Enter the path to the folder you want to search inside [suppose, venv is a vritualenvironment of Python, and is under Desktop, if you put location to Dekstop, my script will detect the virtualenvironment]

[x] Outputs:

• It'll output series of all virtual-environments found
• A text file is generated, named in the format test_op_{dir_name_searching}.txt
  • For example, If you search in Desktop, you'll get a text file generated as test_op_Desktop.txt.
  • The location of the generated text file is same as the directory from where you are running the detect_venv.py

USAGE

I recently thought of copying all my python related coding projects into another drive, but I see almost 3 GB consists of only virtualenvs! So, I thought, if I can filter the directory to the virtualenvs, I can exclude them from being copied and copy only the Python project folders. It basically, searches for a list of pattern of files and folder inside a directory to consider it as a virtualenvironment

Script performs using the following logic:

• search_directory is a virtualenv

• Note down search directory in the respective text file

I'll add the logic for searching virtualenvs ob linux environments too, very soon, stay updated.

New:

1. Added feature to detect venvs also in linux based operating systems.

2. Added script (delete_venvs.py) to selectively delete venv detected using detect_venv.py from the *.txt file generated. (As mentioned in output format.)

3. Added functionality in delete_venvs.py, to pass -y in command line args to automatically delete all virtualenvs.