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Mysterious problem with missing name of the active virtualenv

Recently I have ran into an issue related to virtualenv and my shell. It did not display name of the active virtualenv after invoking the standard command:

source bin/activate

However, everything works perfectly without that (even a deactivate command). This little thing makes me nervous so I have started looking for a solution to that problem.

After a while I found the reason why it does not work:



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function calculate_prompt() {
  # Beautifying the prompt ;).
}

PROMPT_COMMAND=calculate_prompt

Yeah, I totally forgot about the fact that I am using PROMPT_COMMAND. Right now, when I know the reason, the solution is a piece of cake - just add the code for displaying virtualenv name to the function which calculates the prompt:



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function calculate_prompt() {
  # Beautifying the prompt ;).
  # ...

  if [ -z "$VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT" ] ; then
    _OLD_VIRTUAL_PS1="$PS1"

    if [ "x" != x ] ; then
        PS1="$PS1"
    else
      if [ ! -z "$VIRTUAL_ENV" ] ; then
        if [ "`basename \"$VIRTUAL_ENV\"`" = "__" ] ; then
          PS1="`basename \`dirname \"$VIRTUAL_ENV\"\``: $PS1"
        else
          PS1="`basename $VIRTUAL_ENV`: $PS1"
        fi
      fi
    fi
  fi
}

PROMPT_COMMAND=calculate_prompt

And it is fixed! :wink:

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