Quick wrapper for experimenting with python packages in a temporary virtualenv using devpi

experiment_with

#! /bin/bash -x -e

## Example usage:
#    $ ./experiment_with numpy matplotlib 

UUID=`echo $* | sha1sum | awk '{print $1}'`

VENV_DIR=/tmp/temp_venv_$UUID

devpi use

if [[ ! -d ${VENV_DIR} ]]; then

    virtualenv --no-site-packages ${VENV_DIR}

    for x in ipython $*; do
        ${VENV_DIR}/bin/pip install -U -i http://localhost:3141/root/dev/+simple $x
    done
fi

${VENV_DIR}/bin/ipython