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Title: venv module and pyvenv script documented, but not python behavior itself
Type: Stage: resolved
Components: Documentation, Tests Versions: Python 3.3
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Status: closed Resolution: fixed
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Assigned To: docs@python Nosy List: docs@python, eric.araujo, python-dev, vinay.sajip
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Created on 2012-07-03 04:22 by eric.araujo, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (6)
msg164563 - (view) Author: Éric Araujo (eric.araujo) * (Python committer) Date: 2012-07-03 04:22
I did not find any doc or test for the behavior of the interpreter in virtual mode, only for venv and pyvenv.

A new paragraph in site.py exists, but it’s missing from site.rst, contains what I think is an error (saying that sys.prefix is always the real prefix), and should be somewhere more obvious than the site docs or linked from somewhere more obvious, like the Usage and Setup docs or maybe the tutorial.
msg164609 - (view) Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev) (Python triager) Date: 2012-07-03 15:34
New changeset 4a39ea2c1b11 by Vinay Sajip in branch 'default':
Issue 15241: Improved site.py documentation relating to venvs.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/4a39ea2c1b11
msg164611 - (view) Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev) (Python triager) Date: 2012-07-03 15:56
New changeset 18c2519b9114 by Vinay Sajip in branch 'default':
Issue #15241: Added test for venv prefixes.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/18c2519b9114
msg164612 - (view) Author: Vinay Sajip (vinay.sajip) * (Python committer) Date: 2012-07-03 15:59
Note that the prefix values (and their meanings in venv/non-venv environments) are documented in the sys module.
msg164613 - (view) Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev) (Python triager) Date: 2012-07-03 16:27
New changeset 74fea1763d02 by Vinay Sajip in branch 'default':
Closes #15241: Added information on venv prefixes to pyvenv section.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/74fea1763d02
msg165424 - (view) Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev) (Python triager) Date: 2012-07-13 22:49
New changeset 0dbffd3c1317 by Ned Deily in branch 'default':
Issue #15241: Fix test_prefixes failure in test_venv due to symlink in
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/0dbffd3c1317
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:57:32adminsetgithub: 59446
2012-07-13 22:49:18python-devsetmessages: + msg165424
2012-07-03 16:27:07python-devsetstatus: open -> closed
resolution: fixed
messages: + msg164613

stage: resolved
2012-07-03 15:59:41vinay.sajipsetmessages: + msg164612
2012-07-03 15:56:58python-devsetmessages: + msg164611
2012-07-03 15:34:25python-devsetnosy: + python-dev
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2012-07-03 04:22:53eric.araujocreate