A GUI for managing multiple Python virtual environments

Introduction

VenviPy is a graphical user interface for creating or modifing customized virtual environments quick and easy. It was developed for *NIX systems and has been tested on various distributions.

VenviPy provides a set of features like a wizard, that guides the user through the creation process, a table that shows an overview of installed environments in a specific directory and a collection of context menu actions like listing detailed information about an environment and much more.

The main menu:

The wizard:

Output when running pip commands:

Key Features

• Create virtual environments with any Python version (3.3+)
• Clone an environment from a requirements file
• Generate requirements from an existing environment
• Add a description to an environment

• Install and update Pip and Wheel with one click
• Search and install packages from PyPI
• Install from requirements files
• Install from local stored project directories
• Install from a VCS project url (currently git only)
• Install from local or remote source archives

• List detailed information about installed packages
• Show dependency tree (using pipdeptree package)
• Open a project's PyPI website in your browser

Prerequisits

If you don't have a Python built from source, you'll have to run VenviPy using your operating system's Python (3.6+). In this case please make sure that the following packages are installed on your system:

python3-pip
python3-venv
python3.10-venv

Installation

Installing packages directly into your operating system's Python is discouraged. If you want to do it anyway, do it like this:

$ python3.x -m pip install venvipy

The better way however is to create a virtual environment and install VenviPy into it:

$ python3.x -m venv [your_venv]
$ source [your_venv]/bin/activate

To install the latest stable version of VenviPy:

$ (your_venv) pip install venvipy

for the developement version:

$ (your_venv) pip install git+https://github.com/sinusphi/venvipy.git

Now you can launch

• the main menu via:

  • $ (your_venv) venvipy

• or run the wizard standalone to quickly create and set up an environment:

  • $ (your_venv) venvipy-wizard

Running from source

Clone the repository (use the --depth option):

$ (your_venv) git clone --depth 50 [email protected]:sinusphi/venvipy.git

Cd into the repo folder and install the dependencies. On Python 3.6 you will also need to install the dataclasses package if you're not using the provided requirements.txt:

$ (your_venv) pip install -r requirements.txt

or manually:

$ (your_venv) pip install requests beautifoulsoup4 pyqt5==5.15.9

Then you can

• launch the main menu:

  • $ (your_venv) python venvipy/venvi.py

• or run the wizard standalone to quickly create and set up an environment:

  • $ (your_venv) python venvipy/wizard.py

Contributing

Contributions are welcomed, as well as Pull requests, bug reports, and feature requests.