Virtualenv: Virtualenv activation error

[anistark]

I installed with python3 and when I tried activating it,

Missing end to balance this if statement
env/bin/activate (line 78): if [ -n "$BASH" -o -n "$ZSH_VERSION" ] ; then
                               ^
from sourcing file env/bin/activate
    called on standard input

source: Error while reading file 'env/bin/activate'

Please advise..

[Ivoz]

What shell are you using? Could you paste the entire contents of the activate that you tried to run?

[anistark]

I'm using fish. Here's a screenshot :

[Ivoz]

Have you tried activating using the fish script instead?

source py3env/bin/activate.fish

[Ivoz]

As a follow up, what documentation did you read prior to using virtualenv? I'm wondering if there are any pertinent places that could address that different shell users might need to run a different shell script.

[anistark]

Thanks @Ivoz I followed this one

[Ivoz]

Thanks, I made a note to help.

[anistark]

Oops @Ivoz I thought I'll add it to the doc file myself and created this PR

Shall I close it?

[Ivoz]

Yes, thanks for the thought.

[pyaf]

How does shell matter in this case?

[Ivoz]

Which shell you are executing an activate script with (using the source command, typically), determines what syntax that activate script needs to be written in.

[Ruoh3kou]

Which shell you are executing an activate script with (using the source command, typically), determines what syntax that activate script needs to be written in.

thank you a lot for solving my problem