thonny in a virtual python environment

[Dirk De Muynck]

How can I use in a virtual python environment on raspberry pi?
For idle, I switch to the virtual environment and then I use python -m idlelib
How can i do this with thonny ?
thanks

[Aivar Annamaa]

Hi Dirk,

In principle you should go to "Tools => Options => Interpreter" and select the interpreter in the virtual environment. But in current version there is a bug which writes wrong path into the config file.

As a workaround you can open ~/.thonny/configuration.ini, find [run] section and set

backend_configuration = Python (/path/to/your/virtual/environment/bin/python)

best regards,
Aivar