venv-manager 🐍

A powerful CLI tool for managing Python virtual environments with ease.

Features ✨

• Create and manage environments
• List all environments
• Install packages and track dependencies
• Clone environments
• Upgrade packages globally or per environment
• Clean cache and temporary files
• Smart environment activation
• Shell completion for bash, zsh, fish, and powershell
• Size check for environments

Feature	venv-manager	virtualenv	pyenv-virtualenv	Poetry	Pipenv
Create and manage environments	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
List all environments	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Install packages and track dependencies	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅
Clone environments	✅	❌	❌	✅	❌
Upgrade packages globally or per environment	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅
Clean cache and temporary files	✅	❌	❌	✅	❌
Shell completion	✅	❌	❌	✅	❌

One command install 🚀

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jacopobonomi/venv_manager/main/install.sh | bash

Installation

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/jacopobonomi/venv_manager
cd venv_manager

# Install 
make install

Usage 💻

# Create environment (python-version is optional)
venv-manager create myenv [python-version]

# Activate
eval "$(venv-manager activate myenv)"

# Install packages
venv-manager install myenv requirements.txt

# List packages
venv-manager packages myenv

# Upgrade all packages
venv-manager upgrade myenv

# Check environment size
venv-manager size myenv

# Check all environments size
venv-manager size --global

# Global operations
venv-manager --global clean

# Enable shell completion (bash example)
source <(venv-manager completion bash)

Commands 📖

Command	Description
create <n> [version]	Create new environment
activate <n>	Activate environment
deactivate	Deactivate current environment
list	Show all environments
remove <n>	Delete environment
clone <src> <dst>	Clone environment
packages <n>	List installed packages
install <n> <reqs>	Install requirements
upgrade <n>	Upgrade packages
clean <n>	Clean cache files
size <n>	Check environment size
`completion [bash	zsh

Development 🛠️

Requirements:

• Go 1.21+
• Python 3.x

Contributing 🤝

1. Fork the repository
2. Create feature branch
3. Commit changes
4. Open pull request

License 📄

MIT License - See LICENSE file

Author ✍️

Jacopo Bonomi