pipenv/docs/configuration.md

Configuration

Configuration With Environment Variables

Pipenv comes with a handful of options that can be set via shell environment variables.

To enable boolean options, create the variable in your shell and assign to it a true value. Allowed values are: "1", "true", "yes", "on"

$ PIPENV_IGNORE_VIRTUALENVS=1

To explicitly disable a boolean option, assign to it a false value (i.e. "0").

.. autoclass:: pipenv.environments.Setting
    :members:

Also note that pip supports additional environment variables, if you need additional customization.

For example:

$ PIP_INSTALL_OPTION="-- -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release" pipenv install -e .

Changing Cache Location

You can force pipenv to use a different cache location by setting the environment variable PIPENV_CACHE_DIR to the location you wish. This is useful in the same situations that you would change PIP_CACHE_DIR to a different directory.

Changing Default Python Versions

By default, pipenv will initialize a project using whatever version of python the system has as default. Besides starting a project with the --python flag, you can also use PIPENV_DEFAULT_PYTHON_VERSION to specify what version to use when starting a project when --python isn't used.