From 5e3a432a0caa23837fa58134f69e2f82e4f632a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Willison <swillison@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:54:54 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] How to activate your virtual environment

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 docs/contributing.rst | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/contributing.rst b/docs/contributing.rst
index 74f43e2f..b9a077d6 100644
--- a/docs/contributing.rst
+++ b/docs/contributing.rst
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ The next step is to create a virtual environment for your project and use it to
     cd datasette
     # Create a virtual environment in venv/
     python3 -mvenv venv
+    # Now activate the virtual environment, so pip can install into it
+    source venv/bin/activate
     # Install Datasette and its testing dependencies
     pip install -e .[test]