Solving VIRTUAL_ENV Directory Conflicts in UV Python Environments
I’ve been using uv to manage my Python environments. It’s a great tool, but I recently encountered an issue with the VIRTUAL_ENV environment variable. The Problem The issue arose when I was using uv to remove a package from what I thought was my activated virtual environment: (cbsim) ➜ cbsim git:(km/mle-1722/evaluation-harness) ✗ uv remove papermill warning: `VIRTUAL_ENV=/Users/khalil/Desktop/cbsim/.venv` does not match the project environment path `.venv` and will be ignored The error message revealed the root cause: my VIRTUAL_ENV environment variable was pointing to an absolute path that didn’t match uv’s expected relative path. ...