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As a newbie to virtual environment usage in Emacs I would appreciate it if the README.md file showed some basic usage of this script. Without such documentation I don't even know where to start to use this myself.

Thank you for the suggestion. A link to http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/dev/virtualenvs/ would indeed be useful there! :-)

It would also be useful to see how it is meant to be "installed" in Emacs.

Hm. Yeah. Maybe a bit more verbose in the README – it really is as simple as M-x pyvenv-workon RET yourenv RET, though :-)

Not quite that simple. Apparently, there's an error (at least, in my case).

When doing: M-x pyvenv-workon RET yourenv RET

There is this message: Can’t find a workon home directory, set $WORKON_HOME

Is $WORKON_HOME an environmental variable to be set with a list of directories? I can set it manually, but it appears the command isn't reading anything from WORKON_HOME. I'm using emacs25 with pyvenv version 1.13

The code I used to set it manually was : (setenv "WORKON_HOME" "~/myvenv")
Or is there more to it than that?

workon is a name from virtualenvwrapper. Elpy does not intend to install a full Python environment on your system, it uses your Python environment. (E.g. Elpy does not come with a Python installation, nor with pip, nor with virtualenv, nor with virtualenwrapper :-D) If you do not use virtualenvwrapper, you can use M-x pyvenv-activate.

Cool. This was helpful. But I agree... It would help if this was somewhere in the bottom of README.md