OS cannot find binary when installed in a pyenv-managed virtualenv about py-spy HOT 4 CLOSED

pip should be installing py-spy to the bin directory of your python install, which looks correct from the info you gave. The weird part is that your bin directory for your python environment isn't on your path.

What happens if you install other command-line python scripts? Like if you go pip install flake8 does it install flake8 to the same bin directory?

Also, are you using sudo to run py-spy? (like did you install as one user, and then try running as another?). If so the path might be different between users - you can do something like sudo env "PATH=$PATH" py-spy --pid 12345 if that is the case

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What happens if you install other command-line python scripts? Like if you go pip install flake8 does it install flake8 to the same bin directory?

Yep, I have flake8 installed and it exists in that directory.

Also, are you using sudo to run py-spy? (like did you install as one user, and then try running as another?)

Nope. It sounds like I may have messed something up though. Can you reproduce?

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Hmm, yeah it sounds like something is messed up =( I don't have any great suggestions unfortunately, aside from making sure that the virtualenv is activated source my_virtual_env/bin/activate .

You could also install py-spy to the system python (/usr/bin/pip install py-spy - py-spy handles multiple versions so doesn't need to be installed by the same version of python that you want to profile.

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Hm, okay, temporarily going to append that /bin directory onto path.

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