`pyodide` command doesn't work when virtual environment not activated

[hoodmane]

.venv/bin/pyodide crashes.

[ryanking13]

I don't quite understand the issue. Could you please elaborate? Does it mean calling .venv/bin/pyodide without activating the virtual environment crashes?

[hoodmane]

Exactly

[agriyakhetarpal]

I'm unable to reproduce with pyodide-cli installed into a virtualenv-managed virtual environment:

(venv) (base) agriyakhetarpal@Agriyas-MacBook-Pro ~ % which pyodide
/Users/agriyakhetarpal/venv/bin/pyodide

calling pyodide CLI from an activated virtual environment

(venv) (base) agriyakhetarpal@Agriyas-MacBook-Pro ~ % pyodide --help
                                                                                                                        
 Usage: pyodide [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...                                                                             
                                                                                                                        
 A command line interface for Pyodide.                                                                                  
 Other CLI subcommands are registered via the plugin system by installing Pyodide compatible packages (e.g.             
 pyodide-build).                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
╭─ Options ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --version                                                                                                            │
│ --help             Show this message and exit.                                                                       │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

and calling venv/bin/pyodide directly

(venv) (base) agriyakhetarpal@Agriyas-MacBook-Pro ~ % venv/bin/pyodide --help
                                                                                                                        
 Usage: pyodide [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...                                                                             
                                                                                                                        
 A command line interface for Pyodide.                                                                                  
 Other CLI subcommands are registered via the plugin system by installing Pyodide compatible packages (e.g.             
 pyodide-build).                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
╭─ Options ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --version                                                                                                            │
│ --help             Show this message and exit.                                                                       │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

[agriyakhetarpal]

and just for completeness, I checked and I can't reproduce with a uv-managed virtual environment either

[ryanking13]

Exactly

I see. Just curious, why did you want to run the CLI without activating the virtual env?