[StavrosK]

Am I the only one who activates the virtualenv by hand? I don't understand what workon and other things provide. These days, I just have a single virtualenv that gets sourced when my shell starts up, all my projects run in virtual machines (I mostly work with Django). Projects that conflict with others get their own virtualenv, but sourcing it once at the start of the day is still not that much hassle.

[sashahart]

You aren't, I do it all the time. But it does get slightly tedious to type out the whole path. (when switching virtualenvs frequently, unlike your use case)

What I use that is analogous to your single virtualenv sourced at shell startup, is pip install --user. I tend to use that for command line tools like style checkers.