Automatically activate your python virtualenvironment

.zshrc.sh

function auto_activate {
SEARCHPATH=`pwd`

function activate_env {
    # ZSH outputs errors for the ls * command if you don't disable the nomatch output
    unsetopt nomatch 2>/dev/null

    ls $SEARCHPATH/*/bin/activate > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
    if [ "$?" = '0' ]; then
      deactivate > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
      source $SEARCHPATH/*/bin/activate
      return
    else
      SEARCHPATH=$(dirname "$SEARCHPATH")
      if [ "$SEARCHPATH" = "/" ]; then
        return
      fi
      activate_env
      return $?
    fi
}

unset $SEARCHPATH

activate_env
setopt nomatch 

}

auto_activate

alias autoactivate="auto_activate"

patched_activate.diff

--- activate	2012-07-11 15:25:02.000000000 -0700
+++ activate_p	2012-08-02 11:18:50.000000000 -0700
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
         # see http://www.zetadev.com/software/aspen/
         PS1="[`basename \`dirname \"$VIRTUAL_ENV\"\``] $PS1"
     else
-        PS1="(`basename \"$VIRTUAL_ENV\"`)$PS1"
+        PS1="(myproject)$PS1"
     fi
     fi
     export PS1

Good work 👍