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Hi all, I'm thinking of using a <https://docs.prefect.io/api/latest/tasks/shell.html#shelltask|shelltask> and activating a specific virtual environment using the `helper_script` argument. Does anyone have any idea how I would write that script up?

You mean like a conda environment or venv?

I would just attempt `helper_script="conda activate myenv"` but I honestly don’t know if it will stick. I guess you can try that and then check the python version

Your bash (or shell of choice) needs to be able to support the command i think

I can’t get it to work. Looks like more configuration has to be done but you can test like this:
```from prefect.tasks.shell import ShellTask

shell = ShellTask(helper_script="source ~/anaconda3/bin/activate fugue_tutorials", return_all=True,
log_stderr=True, stream_output=True)
shell.run(command = "pip show fugue")```

<@U01QEJ9PP53> Got it! I'll try it out. Thanks for looking into this.