A shell function which creates a temporary virtual environment which self destructs upon deactivation

temp_virtualenv.sh

# Ideally put this inside your ~/.bashrc file

function temp-venv() {

    function cleanup_venv() {
        echo "Cleaning up ${VIRTUAL_ENV} ..."
        rm -rf ${VIRTUAL_ENV}
        unalias deactivate
        deactivate
    }
    
    # Create a temporary virtualenv which terminates and
    # cleans itself up on exit
    # Install using uuid-runtime package
    env_name=$(uuidgen)
    # It is created in $HOME/.temp
    mkdir -p ~/.temp && cd ~/.temp
    python3.7 -m venv ${env_name}
    echo "Temporary virtualenv ${env_name} created"
    source ${env_name}/bin/activate
    alias 'deactivate'='cleanup_venv'
    pip install --upgrade pip && pip install wheel
    # Do your stuff...
    # ...
    cd -
}