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Awesome! I'm hard pressed to think of a third party tool that makes more sense for core-inclusion than virtualenv. Hoping the virtualenvwrapper stuff will also be included (or at least similar commands will be)

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I'm personally not fond of the virtualenvwrapper porcelain: cd foo; workon foo is an extremely marginal improvement over sourcing the activate file, especially when routinely opening and closing terminal tabs and windows.

I use a number of zsh functions and hooks as porcelain to virtualenv so that it behaves like oh-my-zsh bundler support [0] (which I've shamelessly ripped of and tweaked too) i.e being inside foo directory is sufficient. This works especially well since new tabs open straight into the current tab's wd.

[0] https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/tree/master/plugin...

I've put 'cd foo' in my post-activate hook, saves a command and could ofcourse be widended to do other environment setup tricks...

You might want to consider using the virtualenvwrapper.project extension. You define a "projects" dir (which I had already) and then it binds virtualenvs to projects so `workon foo` automatically `cd`s you to the right place. You can also create a new project dir and virtualenv in one shot with `mkproject`.

I don't use virtualenvwrapper either. I generally have more stuff to initialise for my projects than just the virtualenv. I use swork[1] a tool I wrote for managing your shell environment. It basically dumps all of your environment variables to a file allowing them to be restored later, then it runs a project specific initialisation script.

[1] https://github.com/timtadh/swork

Even though I agree, virtualenvwrapper is currently a shell script. That makes me think it probably wouldn't be included, but a pythonic version of the same thing could exist and fill this gap.

Also a fan of virtualenvwrapper. workon with tab completion (in bash, at least) is so nice when you've got more than a few virtualenvs and can't quite remember your naming scheme :)

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