Unable to activate a conda environment during recording about doitlive

[sloria]

You might be able to fake it by using #doitlive env and #doitlive alias (https://doitlive.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#comment-magic-configuration) to set the things conda needs. Other than that, I'm afraid I can't provide much other help, so closing.

Please post here if you get it working.

[sloria]

I don't have any experience using doitlive with conda, so I can't provide much help here. Hopefully other users can provide assistance.

[omry]

How are you creating the shell?
For some reason many things are behaving differently, tab completion, history search with up and down etc.

[sloria]

Each command is written to a file then executed within a subprocess:

doitlive/doitlive/keyboard.py

Lines 104 to 131 in 99017d5

	# Need to make a temporary command file so that $ENV are used correctly
	# and that shell built-ins, e.g. "source" work
	with NamedTemporaryFile("w") as fp:
	fp.write("#!{0}\n".format(shell))
	fp.write("# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n")
	# Make aliases work in bash:
	if "bash" in shell:
	fp.write("shopt -s expand_aliases\n")
	# Write envvars and aliases
	write_commands(fp, "export", envvars)
	write_commands(fp, "alias", aliases)
	if extra_commands:
	for command in extra_commands:
	line = "{}\n".format(command)
	fp.write(ensure_utf8(line))
	cmd_line = cmd + "\n"
	fp.write(ensure_utf8(cmd_line))
	fp.flush()
	try:
	if test_mode:
	output = subprocess.check_output([shell, fp.name])
	echo(output)
	else:
	return subprocess.call([shell, fp.name])
	except KeyboardInterrupt:
	pass

. 😬

[omry]

I see, this explains it.
conda requires some changes to the shell (new functions, aliases etc).
it can't work if the shell does not persist.

Wouldn't it be better to keep a shell open and send keys to it's stdin and read from it's stdout?

[sloria]

I think I had tried that but it didn't work for reasons I've since forgotten...maybe it wasn't feasible to get python mode working. ¯\(ツ)/¯

[omry]

oh well.
seems to be working with asciinema, but real time makes things hard.
https://asciinema.org/a/0SSPYKs0h9u5XnmSDln0ET8y7