Instead of activating the virtual environment, you can call the python
executable directly by its path, ie `venv/bin/python yourscript.py`.
This will work largely the same as activating the venv, except that
you have to always make sure to call the right executable, the shell
won't figure it out for you.

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 6:57 PM Huji Lee <huji.huji@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Starting Nov 7, a number of the jobs I would run through Toolforge grid have stopped working. Each job consists of a .sh file like this on the first line of which I use the source command to activate a python virtual environment. When I run source by hand, subsequent lines work. But when I call the .sh file and it tries to run the source command, I get a "source: not found" message, the virtual environment does not get activated and indeed running which python returns /usr/bin/python which is bad. All my scripts depend on pip packages that are installed in the virtual env and not available with the system python.
>
> The main thing I did on Nov 7 was to add a line at the end of my too's account's .bash_profile as below:
>
> exec zsh
>
> This is because when I manually log into toolforge, I would like zsh to be my shell, and since tool accounts don't support chsh, I thought executing zsh directly from bash would be okay. But apparently, that now breaks the source command somehow.
>
> So I wonder:
>
> (a) Is there a way to properly change the default shell of tool accounts?
> (b) Is there a way to make source work under zsh?
>
> Importantly, I know the problem is with exec zsh because once I removed it and logged out and back in, all scripts worked correctly.
>
> Thanks,
> Huji
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